doedit help

[Kenneth Brody]

Guy Templin wrote:
> 
> Unix and filepro 4.8
> 
> I have a processing table where I am trying to apply an edit to a field and
> it is not working as I thought.
[...]
> process. If the number is entered correctly with a dash it runs OK. However
> if it is entered with out the dash it seems to fail the edit and then db
> equals "" and no value is placed in the selection set. Does anyone have any
> suggestions? I included the beginning of the processing the rest is the
> export file to write the sel.* table.
[...]
>        Then: da(6,#,g)=data(2)
>        Then: db = DOEDIT(da,"dlrnum","6")

Can you give an example of a specific value for da, and the exact
definition of the dlrnum edit?

Short of this info, all I can say is "the value in da fails the dlrnum
edit".

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