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Field and Record Manipulation

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You access data in fields by specifying one or more records that contain the target data. You can access a particular record by moving the record pointer using the GOTO command or you can specify a range or group of records using scope, FOR, or WHILE clauses in a command.

In This Section

  • Scope Clauses
    Describes scope clauses that you can use to specify a range of records.

  • FOR Clauses
    Describes FOR clauses that you can use to specify logical conditions to control the records you want to include.

  • WHILE Clauses
    Describes WHILE clauses that you can use to specify logical conditions that control whether to continue performing operations on records.

  • Data Manipulation
    Provides information on expressions that you can build to get full access to the power of manipulating data in Visual FoxPro.

  • Fields
    Provides the definition of a field.

  • Records
    Provides the definition of a record.