Strange variable manipulation failure?

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> Problem was, they'd have something like:
> 
> :'some condition:long_name = mid(long_name,"4","16"):
> 
> Now apparently, what we narrowed this down to is that following that line
> testing true, long_name would be empty, rather than contain the contents of
> the mid().  However, at the same point in time in the debugger, the mid()
> expression would yield the correct data.
> 
> I asked them to humour me and put a middle variable in there:
> 
> :'some condition:aa=mid(long_name,"4","16");long_name=aa:
> 
> This gave them the expected results--IOW, it worked fine.
[...]

How old is you copy of filePro?  The following was fixed 3 years ago in
4.8.14 and 5.0.08:

> (All)
>     On some systems, the following expression would generate undefined
>     results:
> 
>         UncastVariable = mid(UncastVariable,start,len)


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