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Guru Classic: iSphere Plug-in Expands RSE/RDi Toolset

January 8, 2020 Susan Gantner

My series of three Guru tips on the free iSphere plug-in first appeared in 2015. Since I still find that most RDi users haven’t heard of it, I’ve decided to repeat the series as Guru Classics. I’ve made a few updates to this first one in the series due to enhancements made to both RDi and iSphere in the intervening years.

Followers of my Guru tips know that I’m a big RDi fan. These days I would be lost trying to write or maintain RPG code without things like RDi’s Outline, Error feedback, editor filtering, and Undo. But you know …
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Guru Classic: A Bevy Of BIFs – %ScanRpl (Scan And Replace)

January 8, 2020 Jon Paris

This gem of a BIF was introduced with the V7.1 release and so was not available some five years ago when I wrote my original Bevy series of tips. Now that most active development shops are running V7.1 and later it seems a good candidate for a “Classic” to remind readers of its capabilities. The intervening years have not dimmed its utility and it remains one of my all-time favorite BIFs.

Simply put, %ScanRpl will search a target string for a given character sequence and replace it with another. Not only that but it will then continue to search through …
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Guru Classic: Don’t Ignore the View

January 8, 2020 Paul Tuohy

Author’s Note: This article was originally published in April 2009. The use of DDL and embedded SQL have come a long way since then but the basic premise of the article still applies. I have removed the embedded SQL example using a SELECT * since this is a style that I no longer recommend (from the point of view of self-documenting code, possible performance gains and breaking old habits of thinking in records). I also changed the example of reformatting a numeric date column to use a DATES table as opposed to functions (a faster and better approach). I removed …
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Guru Classic: iSphere Plug-in Expands RSE/RDi Toolset

Guru Classic: A Bevy Of BIFs – %ScanRpl (Scan And Replace)

Guru Classic: Don’t Ignore the View

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