Re: [mv] displaying key value from arbitrary database

["Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>]

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That's funny.

Your key-column is probably called "code" and so you can access
that column by [data base=mybase col=code key=whatever] or
[item-data myfile code], just like any other column in the db.

This should work, I'm sure.

Bye,

-Gideon


> ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
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> Can anyone explain how to display the key value from a record in an
> arbitrary database?  I have a page that returns the results of an [area
> scan...] tag and lists some of the contents of a database using [item-data
> filename fieldname] tags for each iteration of the search list.
Everything
> works fine, except that the contents of each record's key field don't
> display using this method.  Does anyone know why?  Is there a special
> syntax for displaying the key field of an arbitrary database. I have
> scanned and searched the vast docs and list archive and have not come up
> with anything definitive.  My ISP is running a UNIX server with Perl 5.004
> and Sun OS 5.7, I am running Minivend 3.12.
>
> Thanks for any input!
>
> - Ed L.
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