Subject Re: Useful functions/commands From Gaetano D. <gaetanoddRemoveThis@andThatHotmail.com> Date Sat, 29 May 2021 12:36:55 +1000 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 29/05/2021 07:56, Ken Mayer wrote: > 2) x = 'a' ; ?inlist(x,'b','c','d') will return .f. there is a simple equivalent in dBase operators but it may not always work the way you want it to: the $ operator checks whether the value on the left is included in the value on the right ?"a"$"bcd" or ?"a"$"b,c,d" would both return false in dBase for multi-character pattern matches, you need a separator ?"fred"$"john,Paul,Peter" would return false, but it gets trickier in the following case: ?"jon"$"Jonah,Paul,Peter" - would you want this to return true or false? The cleaner way is what Ken posted earlier, i.e. parse the list into an array and from there scan the array for the value you want to look for. -- Gaetano.