Odd things happening...

[Howie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Palmquist" <nlp at vss3.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Odd things happening...


| Kenneth Brody wrote:
|
| > Quoting Jeff Harrison (Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:44:18 -0800 (PST)):
| > [...]
| >
| >>2) As I understand it non-global dummy fields will
| >>only hold their value for the duration of the
| >>processing table in which they are set.  If the
| >>variable is assigned in input processing then as soon
| >>as input processing is over then the value is lost -
| >>even if the field was declared in the automatic table.
|

To add to Nancy's list:  non global dummy variables will be cleared if you
use the "lookup -" command too.

Howie