attach-stmt syntax documentation ?
(1) By Bob C (rchapman) on 2020-06-07 21:09:58 [link] [source]
In the documentation for attach-stmt (syntax/attach-stmt.html) and
(2) By Stephan Beal (stephan) on 2020-06-07 21:36:49 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
I don't understand how the syntax diagram for expr describes a path to the database file that is being attached.
The expression may be arbitrarily complex, so long as it resolves to a value suitable for use as a file name. As a trivial example:
attach 'a' || '.db' as foo
(3.1) By Bob C (rchapman) on 2020-06-08 13:41:17 edited from 3.0 in reply to 2 [source]
Aha!
. . . so long as it resolves to a value suitable for use as a file name.
That stipulation dispels my confusion. I guess it should have been obvious? Thanks for the explanation. Sorry for the noise! ;)