No Duplicate in Quick

[brian_matthewsbrian matthews]

Hi all,

it is indeed a great solution.

My sincere appologies to the question owner, I am so dumb that it did'nt 
even occur to me that she would see my comment; perhaps that's why I need my 
spec's to be so made so clear :-(

Bri

>From: "Bickel, Jon" <BickelJ@USFilter.com>
>To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: No Duplicate in Quick
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:18:38 -0400
>
>Brian,
>
>We endeavor to keep this list flame free.
>(And it looks like a fine solution to the original question to me anyway.)
>
>jb
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: brian_matthewsbrian matthews
>[mailto:brian_matthews_bmw@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:01 PM
>To: pfbcs@hotmail.com; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: No Duplicate in Quick
>
>
>dude, how you got to this solution from the question put to the list is
>beyond me, I hope this guy is never in the position of evaluating my
>performance as a developer !
>
> >From: "Peter Bateman" <pfbcs@hotmail.com>
> >To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> >Subject: RE: No Duplicate in Quick
> >Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:02:29 -0300
> >
> >Georgia:
> >
> >  The DUPLICATE KEY ( default '_' ) is an entry shortcut.
> >
> >  So your users could simply enter the previous entry instead of using 
>the
> >shortcut.
> >
> >  I think what I would do is give a warning instead of an error.
> >
> >  e.g.
> >
> >  Say first and lastname are fields that we want to warn our users about.
> >
> >  Temp t_FIRST char * 40 reset at startup
> >  Temp t_LAST char * 40  reset at startup
> >
> >
> >  Procedure EDIT FIRST_NAME
> >  Begin
> >
> >    If t_FIRST = FIRST_NAME
> >      then warning "*W* First name repeated. Enter \ to correct."
> >End
> >Procedure PROCESS FIRST_NAME
> >Begin
> >    Let t_FIRST = FIRST_NAME
> >End
> >
> >  Procedure EDIT LAST_NAME
> >  Begin
> >
> >    If t_LAST = LAST_NAME
> >      then warning "*W* LAST name repeated. Enter \ to correct."
> >End
> >Procedure PROCESS LAST_NAME
> >Begin
> >    Let t_LAST = LAST_NAME
> >End
> >
> >Regards,
> >Peter Bateman
> >
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