Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me)

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12602
interpreted = N
texte = >>I did what you recommended with [search], but no matching records are being >>displayed. It behaves just loke the [lookup] did ... with the large >>database. > >That almost always means there's something screwy with the database >format. Are any searches working at all? Do records that appear earlier >in the file show up OK? Are you sure the lines end with CR or CR/LF (and >not just LF)? Are any fieldnames very similar to each other?Maybe the database is the problem ...Suppose I do a lookup and one of the first records in the database matches the lookup parameters. Does the lookup stop there, or does it continue down thru the whole database until it reaches the end?I'm asking because if it stops as soon as it finds the first match, then I can use that behavior to try to pinpoint the problem ...Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.hui.net/dna/webdna.html Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  3. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  5. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  6. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  7. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  8. Re: default value from Lookup (was Grant, please help me) (Grant Hulbert 1997)
>>I did what you recommended with [search], but no matching records are being >>displayed. It behaves just loke the [lookup] did ... with the large >>database. > >That almost always means there's something screwy with the database >format. Are any searches working at all? Do records that appear earlier >in the file show up OK? Are you sure the lines end with CR or CR/LF (and >not just LF)? Are any fieldnames very similar to each other?Maybe the database is the problem ...Suppose I do a lookup and one of the first records in the database matches the lookup parameters. Does the lookup stop there, or does it continue down thru the whole database until it reaches the end?I'm asking because if it stops as soon as it finds the first match, then I can use that behavior to try to pinpoint the problem ...Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.hui.net/dna/webdna.html Kenneth Grome

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