duplicating contents of a field

[Rob Campbell]

In that case, the procedure code Dave and I gave you would work.


On 1/25/08, Barry Kahn <barryk at caravanbeads.net> wrote:
>
> The database has five fields and there is data in several of them. I'd
> like to copy the records in the first field (it's a list of item numbers)
> and append them to the database without changing anything else.
>
> So let's say that I have this:
>
>
> Field One Field Two
> A Some data
> B Some data
> C Some data
> D Some data
> E Some data
>
>
> And I'd like to just append the A thru E item numbers to the existing
> list:
>
>
> A Some data
> B Some data
> C Some data
> D Some data
> E Some data
> A
> B
> C
> D
> E
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> bk
>
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 9:51 AM, David Thompson wrote:
>
> Now we need to know what you mean by not changing
> the data in the other fields. If the new records
> don't yet exist, they don't have any data to
> change. If you mean you want them to be empty in
> the new records.
>
>
> Local x
> ArrayBuild x,¶,"",«field 1»+¬
> OpenFile "+ at x"
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> What if each line is a different record?
>
>
> Thanks,
> bk
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Barry Kahn wrote:
>
>
>
>  I have a database and would like to duplicate
> the existing items in one of the fields and
> have them appended to the same field. Say, for
> example, field 1 contains:
>
>
> A
> B
> C
> D
> E
>
>
> I would like a way to duplicate and append to get:
>
>
> A
> B
> C
> D
> E
> A
> B
> C
> D
> E
>
>
> without changing any of the data in any of the
> other fields. Is there an easy way to do that?
>
>
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