Doedit fails

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting GCC Consulting (Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:57:43 -0400):

> I have the following edit
[...]
> The edit is 4 characters and works fine in a real field.
>
> I need to export this type of data from an imported file which is a
> (5,*) field.
>
> No matter what I do, the ending field is blank when I try to apply this
> edit.
>
> I have tried:
>
> Ti(4,*)=""{3;su(4,title)=ti	result su is blank
>
> Tried: xx=doedit(ti,"title","4")	result xx empty
>
> Tested in the debugger doedit("ms",title,"4") and got Ms. Which is
> correct.
>
> Why won't this work with a variable
>
> Fp 5.6.01

Well, all of this assumes that field 3 contains "ms".

If field 3 contains "ms", it works just fine here.

What is in field 3, and what is in field ti?

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