Question

I am populating a DataWindow with some data. Some of the column names are “Request No”, “Status”, etc.

“Status” column can contain values like “Pending”, “Active”,”Expired”.

Whenever the DataWindow is populated I want to count the number of records in PowerBuilder which are having status as “Active”.

After getting the count of the records I will be populating the count in some static text.

Can anybody help me , how to achieve this, as I am new to PowerBuilder.

Thanks

Answer 1

This will get you your answer, but it introduces you to what we PowerBuilder developers know as “Tilde Hell”.

ll_Count = Long (dw.Describe ("Evaluate('sum (if((status = ~~~"Active~~~"),1,0))',1)"))

The tilde-craziness has to do with what each level of string evaluation boils the expression down to for the next evaluation. (~~ boils down to ~, and ~” boils down to ” which is useful if your string is enclosed in double quotes)

Evaluate(<expression>, <row>) inside a Describe() will return the value for <expression> on a given row. (Since <row> is irrelevant to a sum() operation which works across the full data set, all you need to do is make sure it’s a valid row, i.e. in this example, that there is at least one row.)

Good luck,

Terry.