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Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script

From ursus <ursus.kirk@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.databases.filemaker
Subject Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script
Date 2015-03-24 09:45 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mer85m$5tt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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>>
>> In the old days of real programming you couldn't use data variable
>> names that were command or function names, so I always tend to make my
>> field names unique (i.e. InvoiceDate rather than just Date).
>
> In spite of my happy experience using overloading, I'm rethinking and
> will probably move toward your idea, Harry. I'm probably going to rename
> my date fields, so that Date becomes Date of Service, for example.
> However, I'll leave the fields' labels on layouts as Date, where the
> context makes it clear what date is being specified.
>
> Charlie
>

Charlie, although filemaker does accept field names with spaces, I would 
rather advice names without. Use 'CamelCase' as Harry showed.
Names with spaces will probably lead to all kind of problems.

-- 
Keep well, Erik

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How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-11 01:10 -0700
  Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2015-03-11 02:22 -0700
    Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-11 12:00 -0700
      Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2015-03-11 20:39 +0100
      Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2015-03-12 20:55 -0700
  Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-03-12 18:30 +1300
    Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-19 22:59 -0700
      Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-03-20 19:18 +1200
        Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2015-03-20 21:27 -0700
        Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-22 00:40 -0700
          Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-03-23 09:03 +1200
            Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-24 01:21 -0700
              Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script ursus <ursus.kirk@gmail.com> - 2015-03-24 09:45 +0100
                Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-24 09:54 -0700
      Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-03-19 23:51 -0700
  Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script wonfuji@gmail.com - 2015-03-12 06:54 -0700
    Re: How to Search for a Year in a Script Ursus <ursus.kirk@ziggo.nl> - 2015-03-12 17:27 +0100

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