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Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 152 Location: USA

I know this is insanely simple, i just cant get my syntax right....

All i want to do is have an alias, mq, that will #MAPQUERY on %1.

Here's what i did:

#ALIAS mq {#MAPQUERY {[Name] LIKE '%%1%'}}

typing mq Crypt show's totally different results than typing out the full #MAPQUERY {[Name] LIKE '%Crypt%'} at the command line

I know it has something to do with the % signs, just not sure what to do here.

Thanks

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:53 am

Heya,

Try

#ALIAS mq {#mapquery {[Name] LIKE '%"%-1"%'}}

I use %-1 so i can search on more than one word

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 152 Location: USA

That works, thanks Mortie.

I always read about %-1 being unsupported though. Is there a "right" way to do it? I'll definitely use this, just wanna know the "other" way too, for future reference.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

say %-1 is correct and documented for #Aliases

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:02 pm

%param(0) is the "right" way.