jimlongo Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Trying to add some text to a query. For example here's a real simple calculation with a query that returns some text ExecuteSQL( "SELECT n_transactionAmountGross, t_transactionModel FROM Transactions WHERE FamilyID_CustomerID = ?" ; " : " ; "" ; FamilyID ) ) For a particular record it could return something like 100 : Membership 200 : Lesson I'd like to show the amount as currency. Even though the amount is a number in Filemaker, I assume that since the calculation is returning text the amounts are now a text string. So i'd like to prepend a dollar sign. But any number of operations like "$" + or Quote like used in the following don't work. I've tried it as a parameter using a variable as well. ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT " & Quote("$") & "n_transactionAmountGross, t_transactionModel FROM Transactions WHERE FamilyID_CustomerID = ?" ; " : " ; "" ; FamilyID ) ) Anyone have a solution for inserting text into a query? --------- BTW: Even if I was only returning the amount, and switched the calculation to return a number I cannot CAST the number as smallmoney which might be a solution. I guess ultimately whatever data the calculation returns will override the datatype returned by SQL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eos Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 There are different syntaxes; I found that the one from Oracle works in FM (see screenshot). Put the string in single quotes. ExecuteSQL ( "  SELECT '$' || n_transactionAmountGross,  t_transactionModel  FROM Transactions   WHERE  FamilyID_CustomerID = ?  "  ;   " : "  ;  ""   ;  FamilyID ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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