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CATEGORY# FIELD SPECIAL TREATMENT
If the user does not specify the option /C, special treatment is given to
a field named CATEGORY#. There may be entries on the data entry screen
following a line of space separated asterisks ("| * * ") which give a category
number followed by a dash and a description ending with a semicolon. Two per
line are allowed, separated by a vertical line (│, produced by the keystroke
Alt-179).
The following is an example of the type of .HDR file described above,
from Dean Ammon's BOOKINV templates. Only a few categories are shown, but up
to 30 categories can be specified. I have omitted some lines in the header,
and shortened the right hand columns to fit in the document:
AUTHOR
40,3,9
CATEGORY# :09:
2,3,64
TITLE
60,4,8
CR_DATE :09:
4,5,75
COMMENTS_1 ta-entry screen 21:80
65,6,13
COMMENTS_2
65,7,13
|AUTHOR CATEGORY# |
|TITLE |
|COVER COST LOCATION ON_LOAN CR_DATE |
|COMMENTS_1 |
|COMMENTS_2 |
| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CATEGORIES * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |
| 01 - COOKBOOKS; │ 16 - HISTORY; |
| 02 - CHILDRENS; │ 17 - DO IT YOURSELF/SKILLS; |
| 03 - CRAFT/HOBBY/DECORATING; │ 18 - ART; |
| 04 - FARM/PETS/DO IT YOURSELF; │ 19 - SCIENCE FANTASY; |
With the above .HDR file, and a call line not specifying /C, wherever one
would normally expect to see CATEGORY#=nn, where nn is some value, QDRSUM will
print CATEGORY=description, where description is the string of characters fol-
lowing the hyphen and preceding the semicolon for nn. If nn cannot be found,
or if the description is blank, then CATEGORY#=nn would still be printed. For
example, the following call
QDRSUM BOOKS CAT
could produce the printout below:
Report for database BOOKS
14 records have CATEGORY=CRAFT/HOBBY/DECORATING
4 records have CATEGORY=07
1 record has CATEGORY=HISTORY
1 record has CATEGORY=DO IT YOURSELF/SKILLS
77 records have CATEGORY=SCIENCE FANTASY
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There are a total of 97 matching records in the database
Note the result for the four records with CATEGORY# equal to 07. Since 07 did
not appear in the BOOKS.HDR file, no translation could be performed.