Variable in export ascii export ascii aaa= ?variable name ? ?x

[Dan Coutu]

John Esak wrote:

>>Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Dan Coutu done said:
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>>>Actually you can use the parentheses trick with index names in lookups.
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>>I thought the last time it came up on the list, they said that wasn't
>>usable.  Hence it took (# of auto indexes) * lines of code to get around.
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>>>It works just fine for me with version 5.0.14D4.
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>>Mrm.  Interesting.  Thanks for the heads-up.
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>No, Mark, you are very correct. Parentheses can NOT be used with the I=
>value on a lookup line. Not in any version I've ever seen up through 5.0.14.
>Don't know who is saying this is so, but he/she is dead wrong.
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>And again, it always cracks me up when I see someone saying "It works for me
>on this version or that..."  and I *know* that's impossible.  What is the
>purpose of saying this, if you <actually> haven't tried it. (or presumably,
>you would have seen the same error everyone else gets. :-)
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>John
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Okay, I went and double checked the code and see that I was remembering 
wrong. It was the
K= value that I'm using parenthesized variables with, not the index 
value. Sorry for the confusion.

Dan