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Zoltán Király Posted 5 years ago
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The ORIGINALYEAR field represents the original year of when the album was released, before it was re-issued or remastered in any form.


The ORIGINALYEAR field represents the original year of the album, before it was re-issued or remastered in any form.


Context: I'm talking about a field "ORIGINALYEAR" in a computer program which is capitalized.

  

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Zoltán Király The ORIGINALYEAR field represents the original year of when the album was released, before it was re-issued or remastered in any form. " Fields hold values. They don't represent them.

  • Zoltán Király The ORIGINALYEAR field represents the original year of when the album was released, before it was re-issued or remastered in any form.
  • " Fields hold values.
  • They don't represent them.
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Zoltán KirályThe ORIGINALYEAR field represents the original year of when the album was released, before it was re-issued or remastered in any form.

I would make that "The ORIGINALYEAR field holds the year when the album was first released, before it was re-issued or remastered in any form." Fields hold values. They don't represent them.

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