<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Thank you all that responded. After looking at the solutions, I found that Bruce’s suggestion was exactly what i was looking for. thanks again to everyone. <br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 30, 2014, at 5:51 PM, Bruce Easton <<a href="mailto:bruce@stn.com">bruce@stn.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 4/30/14 8:40 PM, James Flanagan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">FreeBSD 9.2<br>Filepro 5.7.04<br><br>I am looking for the most elegant way (i.e the fewest lines of code) to increment through the alphabet in a way similar to how i would do it with numbers.<br><br>every year, i need to code to create the 26 folders for each letter of the alphabet. below is the basics of the code that i would like to use (but it does not work because when you add “1” to a a variable that is a letter, the variable becomes a number instead of incrementing the letter):<br><br>fld_ltr::':<br>::folder_letter="A":<br>fld_lop::':<br>::folder=root_folder{slash{company_name{slash{"photos"{slash{job_year{slash{folder_letter:<br>::unix="mkdir"<folder:<br>::system noredraw unix<br>:folder_letter eq “Z":return:<br>::folder_letter=folder_letter+"1":<br>::goto fld_lop:<br><br>I am hopeful that i can avoid writing 26 differently lines of code to account for each letter folder. thank you very much,<br><br>James Flanagan<br><a href="http://Flantec.com">Flantec.com</a><br><br><br></blockquote>James, I believe on the line where you increment, you just need instead:<br><br>::folder_letter=chr(asc(folder_letter)+"1"):<br><br>Bruce<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>