In article <49bf949f4c.B21306@...>,
<B21306@...> wrote:
> In message <Sc9cec05d0robin@...> you wrote:
> snip
> Hi Robin,

> Thanks for your email - I,m sorry for the delay with my reply. Your proc
> in the attachmend works fine. I have search for a solution many hours
> over easter but this help too not in the query problem :-(. Your proc
> give out at last a !!! string and I save this in the file.

> Ok I can find in the query say 2D or 5M but when I try in the default
> SAM query field >10M then I become 14D in use and this is not TRUE or ?
> :-) Unfortunately in this time I have no new Idea :-(. A + with Your
> proc is I can use J instead Y in germany.

OK. I think I was misunderstanding the problem.

If I understand correctly (at last), you have a record with a field "age",
containing information on difference in dates (in one form or another).

You would like to search that field by allowing the user to specify
strings such as "5M" for 5 months, "2Y/J" for 2 years/jars etc.

For example, writing "> 5M" in the query form would search the file for
all records where the "age" was more than 5 months.

If that is correct then we are approaching the problem from the wrong
direction. Before I send you lots of irrelevant code, let me know if I've
now got the problem as it really is, and we can go from there.

Hope this didn't spoil your whole Easter weekend ;O)

Regards,

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Robin Hampshire
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