wild card in an index

[Fairlight]

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 06:45:32PM -0500, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Is it me, or does anyone else not understanding to task?
> 
> What wildcard?
> 
> Is this *clerk or *report?
> 
> Richard
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > 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
> >> 
> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> >>     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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