variable find

[dmalone]

How do you write a script to find all records within a certain range of a value in a field in the current record.

[Lee Smith]

Such as?

[dmalone]

if field (1) in the current record has the value of 4

and field (2) in the current record has the value of 100

i want to find all records that have a value of 2

[danjacoby]

Create two global fields, call 'em gField1 and gField2

SetField (gField1, Field1)

SetField (gField2, Field2)

Enter Find Mode

Set Field (Field1, (gField1 - 2) & "..." " (gField1 + 2)

Set Field (Field1, (gField2 - 10) & "..." " (gField2 + 10)

Perform Find

Additionally, you could create two more global fields, called gRange1 and gRange2, and a layout where these fields exist. Then the script is:

SetField (gField1, Field1)

SetField (gField2, Field2)

GoToLayout[LayoutWithGlobalRangeFields, Pause]

Enter Find Mode

Set Field (Field1, (gField1 - gRange1) & "..." " (gField1 + gRange1)

Set Field (Field1, (gField2 - gRange2) & "..." " (gField2 + gRange2)

Perform Find

[DonMalone]

i cannot make this work

Set Field (Field1, (gField1 - 2) & "..." " (gField1 + 2)

maybe i don't understand the abreviations

it does not accept "

[cjaeger]

Change

Set Field (Field1, (gField1 - 2) & "..." " (gField1 + 2)

to

Set Field (Field1, (gField1 - 2) & "..." & (gField1 + 2)

If you did this manually, you would enter

2...6

in the field, if valus is 4.

This is exactly what Lee's script does.

[dmalone]

thanx

that works

[danjacoby]

Wups -- typo on my part.

Good catch, cj.