4D 2004 allows 1024 query arguments within a single query. Programmatically, this is possible with the command QUERY.

The QUERY command allows you to build a query with multiple query arguments with the optional * parameter. For instance, the following:

QUERY([State];[State]Name="a@";*) QUERY([State]; |; [State]Name="b@";*) QUERY([State]; |; [State]Name="c@")

can be read as:

Query the State table where the field Name begins with the letter "a"
or "b" or "c"

Therefore, the 3 QUERY calls above can be extended to a maximum of 1024 calls.