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From: Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com>
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Subject: Re: Finding in a Script Using Dates with Wildcards
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In article <slrnoe8uct.3kh.t-usenet@ID-685.user.individual.de>, Martin
Ԥrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 20:51:03 -0700, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
> >
> > How do you execute a find in a script using a date such as 3/*/2017?
> > Whenever I try it, I get a message that "3/*/2017" is not a date.
> >
> > As usual, I'm still using FileMaker Pro 8.0v3 on a G5 running 10.5.8.
> 
> Try 3/1/2017..3/31/2017
> Martin

That would be the best way (although I thought it was three dots
between the two dates). The Find Mode wildcards aren't really designed
for anything except text.

You could try using the function GetAsDate("3/*/2017"), but I doubt
that will work either.

Helpful Harry  :o)