using memo fields on the fly?

[John Esak]

Ken,
Did you see my note about the SEGV I was getting? Using the code you
suggested, it core dumps immediately. Did/does this not happen when you run
it?
John



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth
> Brody
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 7:03 PM
> To: Dan Coutu
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: using memo fields on the fly?
>
>
> Quoting Dan Coutu (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:08:11 -0400):
>
> > Kenneth Brody wrote:
> [...Building memo field from other fields...]
> > >Have you tried:
> > >
> > >    my_memo = comment_1 < comment_2 < comment_3
> > >
> > Okay, so I tried to build on this idea. Basically I'm writing processing
> > table code that has no human user interface. It is used in automated
> > processes. So I had made a filePro database whose purpose in life was to
> > contain the code. Because of this the fields in the database are
> > actually useless. So made a new field, defined it as a memo field, and
> > then tried this type of code logic:
> >
> > Note: field 2 is a memo field.
> >
> > if:   ' Test value for recnum field, field 2
> > then: rn(8,.0)="93414"
> > if:  ' Initialize the memo to be empty.
> > then: 2 = ""
> > if:
> > then: lookup tbl=detail i=B k=rn -ng
> > loop:
> > if: not tbl
> > then: goto done
> > if: tbl(2) ne rn
> > then: goto done
> > if: tbl(5) ne ""
> > then: 2 = 2 < tbl(5)
> > if:
> > then: getnext tbl
> > if:
> > then: goto loop
> > done:
> > if:
> > then: close tbl
> > if:
> > then: end
> >
> > Seems pretty straightforward. Yet it crashes and burns with a
> > segmentation violation every time. Seems like I should be able to append
> > stuff to a memo field right?
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> What length/type are field 2 and tbl(5)?
>
> On which line does it SEGV?
>
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