[GRASS5] db.oodbfedit: a _very_ simplistic approach to dbf attribute editing
Glynn Clements
glynn at gclements.plus.com
Sat Aug 6 09:45:00 EDT 2005
Daniel Calvelo Aros wrote:
> > No. Those changes just fix and extend the syntax of arithmetic
> > expressions within WHERE clauses.
> > **********
> >
> > Is this still true ? One clear need was the possibility of including
> > expressions in the update statement.
>
> He, he. No, that's not true anymore. What you have now is (test please, test
> please, test please):
>
> update table foo set bar=baz/2+1/(-4*toto);
Does this handle updating multiple fields correctly? I.e. if you do:
update table foo set bar=bar+1, baz=bar
will baz contain the original value of bar (not the updated value)?
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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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