Question

I am supporting a legacy application written in Visual FoxPro 9, and I need some guidance in how to modify the values in an index column of a free table.

The table definition is as follows:

I want to increment the value of the “lrecordno” column by 1,000 IF the “nversion” column contains a specific value (for example, “22.30”).

What is the proper sequence of steps to accomplish this? Thank you.

Answer 1

If you are working in Visual FoxPro using SQL:

USE tableName SHARED
UPDATE tableName SET lrecordno = lrecordno + 1000 WHERE nversion = 22.30
USE

Or using the FoxPro REPLACE command:

USE tableName SHARED
REPLACE lrecordno WITH lrecordno + 1000 FOR nversion = 22.30
USE

These will affect all records that match the WHERE or FOR clauses.