Need a clever way to load all the qualifier names...

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Jun 8 08:45:06 PDT 2005


Quoting Mike Schwartz (Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:34:03 -0500):

>      I am writing some master reports that will need to access all the
> available qualifiers and I need a clever solution that will let me read
> in all of the qualifier names for a given file.  This is running in
> filePro 5.0.06 on SCO Openserver.
[...]
>      Opendir-nextdir commands work OK, but they are tedious to write and
> there isn't a mask for qualifiers, so they tend to require a lot of disk
> I/O.  (Some of the filePro files I am working with have hundreds of
[...]

Try "key*" as the mask, and the eliminate the extended keys "keyx1" and
so on.

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