Functions Reference

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The People and Company tables are related using the number field CompanyID. The
calculation CompanyName = LookupNext(Company::CompanyName;Higher)
defined in the People table will return Apple, FileMaker, Motorola and Cisco for records
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Quote
Format
Quote(text)
Parameter
text - any text expression or field
Data type returned
text
Description
Returns the text form of text enclosed in quotation marks. Special characters within
text are escaped appropriately. This function protects text from being evaluated by the
Evaluate function.
Examples
Quote(“hello”) returns “hello”
Quote(“abc\¶”) returns “abc\¶”
Quote(“say \”hello\” fred”) returns “say \”hello\” fred”
Evaluate(Quote(“1 + 2”)) returns 1 + 2
Evaluate(“1 + 2&” & Quote(“ - 1 + 2”)) returns 3 - 1 + 2