revNumberOfRecords function for avoiding no record found errors

Bill bill at bluewatermaritime.com
Thu Dec 30 10:58:52 EST 2004


Can you show an example?


On 12/30/04 11:24 AM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net> wrote:

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> You can also use the revNumberOfRecords function to this end.
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> On Dec 29, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
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>> 
>> On Dec 29, 2004, at 10:02 AM, docmann wrote:
>> 
>>> You folks are fantastic! It works exactly as intended now. :)
>>> 
>>> Geesh, I still don't know how I got so far off track in attempting
>>> this <shaking  and pounding head on desk vigorously> and clearly need
>>> to revisit the documentation. :(
>>> 
>>> On a side note, I intentionally entered data that I knew did not
>>> exist, just to see what would happen and got a "revdberr,invalid
>>> column number" message. Is there a proper way to test and/or trap
>>> these types of errors when a record doesn't exist?
>>> 
>>> Again, thank you very VERY much!
>> 
>> Try this:
>> 
>> if revCurrentRecordIsLast(q) = false then
>> revMoveToFirstRecord q
>> put revDatabaseColumnNamed(q, "City") into field "myCity"
>> put revDatabaseColumnNamed(q, "State") into field "myState"
>> put revDatabaseColumnNamed(q, "Zip") into field "myZip"
>> else
>> answer "no record"
>> end if
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Trevor DeVore
>> Blue Mango Multimedia
>> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>> 
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