Tip of the Iceberg

1 - @Dragon - I know well the pain of which you speak. Thankfully, this issue has been fixed at least in 7.0.2 and later.

2 - My major gripe that I have found with views is that Notes doesn't reset the column ids when copying and pasting between views. If you insert a column into a view, Notes gives it an id liek $1, $2, $3 etc. If you have a column with such an id on it, and then copy and paste one with the same id from another view, Notes doesn't reset or increment the counter so you can end up with two $5's in the view. The first column displays correctly, the second will display what the first column showed. This causes views not to display the correct data... except it will show correctly in the designer.

Cutting and pasting the column normally fixes it (as you found out). But it's still a lot nicer if Notes would figure out the auto numbering scheme a little better. If I'm posting a column into a view and that column has an auto-id, then Notes should make that ID match *this* view.

3 - I think if you apply this you would actually have received responses from Dragon Coteril and Kevin Petit

char letters(char name[], int n)
{
int i = 1;
int j = 0;
char nodouble[n];
nodouble[0]=name[0];

for (i; i != n ;++i)
{
if (name!=name[i-1])
{
int j = strlen(nodouble);
nodouble[j-1]=name;
}
}
return (nodouble);
}


int main ()
{
char surname[100];
scanf("%s",&surname);
surname[0]=toupper(surname[0]);
int n = strlen(surname);

printf("%s",letters(surname, n));
return 0;