Jason,

You're really great.
Things work fine now !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Wharton" <jwharton@...>
To: <IBObjects@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [IBO] New sub-release 3.6 Ca filter


> > > According to the BDE filter syntax, you need to put square brackets
> > > around this (I think anyway).
> > >
> > > Try this and see if it works:
> > >
> > > [f_striptime(datum)] between '09/01/2000' and '12/08/2000'
> > >
> > > You should also avoid using double quote chars since these denote
> > > identifiers, not data.
> > >
> > > If the square brackets don't work, I'm going to have to figure
something
> > > else out. I designed it to work with a plain column name, not a UDF
> > > around a column name.
> > >
> > > I may regret opening up this can of worms yet.... <g>
>
> > [f_striptime(datum)] between '09/01/2000' and '12/08/2000'
> > this doesn't work either
> >
> > but
> >
> > datum between '09/01/2000' and '12/08/2000'
> > does work !
>
> Here's a quick hack that will make my idea work:
>
> I'm assuming you have full source and thus IB_Parse.pas. Near line #4330
>
> function GetNextToken( var AStr: string; WantIdent: boolean ):string;
> var
> ii: integer;
> tmpPos: integer;
> lit1, lit2: boolean;
> begin
> if AStr = '' then Exit;
> if WantIdent and ( AStr[1] = '[' ) then
> begin
> tmpPos := getLitSafePos( ']', AStr, 1 );
> if tmpPos > 0 then
> begin
> Result := Copy( AStr, 2, tmpPos - 2 );
> Delete( AStr, 1, tmpPos );
> AStr := Trim( AStr );
> Exit;
> end;
> end;
> ...
>
> This will make it recognize the square brackets like I intended for it to
do
> and indicated that it should.
>
> I am right now making it so that the square brackets are unnecessary.
>
> Regards,
> Jason Wharton
> CPS - Mesa AZ
> http://www.ibobjects.com
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