wild card in an index

[Richard D. Williams]

Is it me, or does anyone else not understanding to task?

What wildcard?

Is this *clerk or *report?

Richard

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> On Sep 16, 2021, at 8:06 AM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> -v selectiontable is the only way I can think of - unless, you use  a dynamic [selectionset] and point to it using -s (I think it is -s for reports, I rarely ever used this option).
> 
> I seem to recall someone in this list talking about dynamically creating selection tables and using them on demand, but this could be your way out
> 
> 
>> On 9/16/21 8:58 AM, Jeff Harrison via Filepro-list wrote:
>> What exactly are you trying to wildcard? The month? The year? You can use the index if you have a range between two dates. If you have multiple ranges then you would need to write your selection with select processing using the lookup dash.
>> Jeff
>> 
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>>     On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 8:46 AM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:   Not a lookup. This is just straight index access from do’s menu.
>> 
>> Richard
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Sep 15, 2021, at 11:47 AM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> No.  Best you can do is a set of conditional lookups with static
>>> indexes:
>>> 
>>> if: condition1
>>> then: lookup [...] i=a
>>> if: condition2
>>> then: lookup [...] i-b
>>> [etc.]
>>> 
>>> m->
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 03:41:05PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>>>> I can'
>>>> T remember can I use a wild card with an index.
>>>> 
>>>> If I can. How?
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to find a date record using an index the date is field 4(10,myyy/). This means that the month and date would be 2 digits and the years 4 digits with a slash (/) separating them.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Richard Kreiss
>>>> GCC Consulting
>>>> 
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