Another newb question - How to you clear a field?

[J. Landman Gay]

Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
> Hi from Paris,
> 
> Jacqueline,
> 
> Did I correctly understand what you put in your recent post :
> 
>> And if literal
>> names are not quoted, the engine takes twice as long to execute the
>> statement because of the additional lookup.
> 
> Do you mean that the statement :
> 
> If field "MyField" = "YES" then .......
> 
> executes twice as fast as :
> 
> If field MyField = "YES" then .......

Yes, that is what I meant. But Dave Cragg disproved my theory, since 
apparently the engine works at the same speed in either case (but I am 
still having trouble believing it; it seems counter-intuitive.) I think 
it is better scripting form to quote literals in any case though. It 
saves misinterpretation later on when you re-read your scripts, and in 
some cases could prevent the engine from mis-interpreting your literal 
values as variable names.

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