what should happen if

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> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:16 PM
> To: 'Robert Pulliam M.D.'; filepro-list at seaslug.org
> Subject: RE: what should happen if
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> 	From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Robert Pulliam M.D.
> 	Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:22 AM
> 	To: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> 	Subject: what should happen if
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> 	    Filepro 5.0
> 	   Record is as follows-
> 	 
> 	CLM*INV1191*175***11::1*Y*A*Y*A*B~
> 	There is only one field in this record as above     
> 	    
> 	INV1191 is the invoice # and can contain up to 8  
> numbers after the INV.
> 	 
> 	I use a mid string function as follows:
> 	 
> 	aa = mid(1,"8","8")
> 	aa then equals 1191*175
> 	 
> 	I then set ab(8,.0) = aa
> 	I expected this to give and edit error but ab was 
> actually 1191.   This
> works fine for my purposes but I was surprised that it worked.
> 	When I test the .0 edit I cannot enter 1191*175 as 
> expected, it only takes 1191.  The fact that this works 
> prevents looping or using the instr function to extract the 
> actual invoice number.  Is this expected behavoir?  Is there 
> a better way to extract the number from this field - the 
> number following
> the INV may be between one and eight numbers.   This works 
> for any of these.
> 	 
> 	Thanks in advance -  Robert P. Pulliam M.D. 
> 

On my previous post, aa(1,.0) should be aa(1,*) to insure that * is accepted.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting