mid statement

[Todd]

At 07:45 PM 11/17/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:13:43PM -0800, Todd, the prominent pundit,
>witicized:
> > SCO5.0.7
> > filePro 5.0.14R4
> >
> >   Am I missing something obvious or is the following not allowed. I am
> > getting a syntax error on the mid statement:
> >
> > 1  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> >         ¦
> > If:                                                                   ¦
> >         Then: lookup dtl = macswodtl  r=free  -e
> >    2  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
> -   -
> >         ¦
> > If:                                                                   ¦
> >         Then: copy dtl
> >    3  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
> -   -
> >         ¦
> > If:                                                                   ¦
> >         Then: dtl[1] = "WC80597"
> >    4  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
> -   -
> >         ¦ If: ' SPECIAL KEY, W/O# & PART NUMBER
> >         Then: mid(dtl[30],"1","7") = "WC80597"
> >
> > *** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***
> >
> > Line Number: 4
> >
> > mid(dtl[30],"1","7") = "WC80597"
> >      ^
> > Process contains a syntax error at position indicated.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
>Shouldn't that be dtl(30) using parens rather than brackets?  This is a
>lookup, not an array.  I've never heard they were interchangeable on
>lookup aliases.

  I tried both ways, same result.


>Incidentally, I would personally make sure line 2 has a failure test of:
>
>IF:  not dtl
>THEN:  'handle error condition here

  I would think it would always find a free record, unless I ran out of 
disk space. But your right, I should probably make a habit of it.

Sorry Mark. I did mean to reply to the list.

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