Associated fields and @AF

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:12:43AM -0500, Chad McWilliams wrote:
> Here is an output processing I'm running:
> 
>   if: d) co "O"
> Then: msgbox "AF="<@af
> 
> Now, as I read it in the filePro manual, @af should should tell me what
> field in the associated group contains the value of "O".  i.e. If O is the
> value of the second field in the associated group d), then @AF should be 2.
> 
> When I run this processing against my table, it find records that contain
> the value "O" somewhere in the group, but @AF is always equal to 1.
> 
> Here's what the online manual says:
> 
> -----
> If you have 32 associated fields and you do a search of that group and find
> a match, the @AF field will contain the occurrence number. If it was the
> fifth one in the associated group, then @AF will be "5".
> -----
> 
> Am I misunderstanding what's going here?

Very vaguely I seem to recall that your associated field has to be
called d0.  I had a similar problem to this, but it was long enough ago
that that might be the solution to some other problem.  :-)

Cheers,
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