HTML into filePro processing tables--the EASY way!

[Lerebours, Jose]

Mark posted:

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> >
> > You cannot print a long variable so I am not concerned with 
> it been used
> > in the HTML page.  Want its content?  Place it in a regular 
> dummy field!
> 
> Pardon?  "You cannot print a long variable..."  I don't 
> follow.  I do it
> all the time, if you're talking about the contents.  It acts 
> just like any
> variable ever has in that regard.  Why would one need to 
> place the contents
> into a dummy field?  Want to clue me in on this special 
> limitation on long
> variables?  I've never heard this before.
> 

Perhaps, I do not know how to print a long variable.  If I had
a variable MyFirstName and wanted to print its content, I normally
place it in a regular dummy variable fn and then place *fn on form
or report.

How do you print a long variable?  Can you do *MyFirstName?

If you print it the same way I do, then my code covers it just
the same ...

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> 
> > It is kind of like that!  Any development tool assumes that 
> you know what
> > you are doing.  Since the arrays cover all possible 
> variables and all
> > possible fields, the only problem you will run into is 
> "nothing prints".
> 
> Is that also the case in a declared extern?  I thought it would die a
> horrible, fiery death if you tried referencing one for which 
> there was no
> global declaration...  Or does it simply evaluate as blank if 
> there's no
> matching global in the memory table where they're stored?  Ken?
> 

Well, right now, as it works as a subroutine and I rarely ever use 
external variables, it was not written to concern itself it them.

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> I've turned
> down only one user feature request over all my software in 
> three years,
> and only then because it would have created more problems 
> than it would
> have solved.  I'm just thinking about doing this so that it's 
> available for
> myself, which is a low priority.  But if someone else really 
> wants it, I'll
> generally make it happen if it's reasonable.
> 

Too bad in the software world the "If you build it, they will come"
does not apply.  I guess it would go like this:

If you write it, they will buy it!

Regards;


Jose Lerebours