mid statement

[Todd]

At 05:58 AM 11/18/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>--- Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
>
>[snip]
> >
> > Okay, scratch that theory.
> >
> > Next attempt to do it gracefully:  What happens if
> > you lay an array over
> > the top of the lookup and -then- use the array
> > rather than the lookup?
> > This gets you around being unable to use variable
> > subscripts on lookups, so
> > maybe it gets you around any MID limitations as
> > well?
> >
>
>As I mentioned to Joe, I was wrong on this one.  You
>can use a lookup field in a mid statement.  It seems
>that you can also use an array, or any expression.
>However, it seems that you can't do it if the mid
>statement is on the left side of an equal sign.

  Thanks everyone for your reply. I can do what I need with
dtl[30] = "WC80597" { 6.
  I read the help file, as Joe pointed out, and just thought I was able to 
do this and was just missing something.

Todd


>Jeff Harrison
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>Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
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