5.0.13 vs 5.0.14 declared values
Scott Nelson
scott at logicdatasystems.com
Sun Nov 7 16:29:48 PST 2004
Kenneth Brody wrote:
>GCC Consulting wrote:
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> at I found was that I needed to, in auto processing, declare
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>>last_line(3,.0,g). When I did this, everything worked perfectly.
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>>Has anyone else found that a routine using declared values stopped working
>>correctly with version 5.0.14.
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>[...]
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>It didn't "work perfectly" in 5.0.13. Your code was broken (it was missing
>the ",g" needed to retain values between records), but "worked" due to a
>bug in 5.0.13 which didn't properly clear the values between records. When
>you moved to 5.0.14, your bug was no longer hidden.
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Are you saying dummy field values were kept between records, even if not
global? Or did this
just affect declare variables?
When this kind of bug is found, fptech should have a way of notifying
developers. This could have
caused all kinds of pesky problems.
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