Why am I getting a syntax error?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dan Coutu (Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:03:37 -0500):

> Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > Quoting Jeff Harrison (Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:14:44 -0800 (PST)):
> > [...]
> >
> >> Perhaps the problem is that there are trailing spaces
> >> within the variable.
> >>
> >> Try the following instead:
> >>
> >> lookup fil=(Filename{"") r=(RecordNo) -ex
> >>
> >
> > filePro automatically strips trailing spaces.
> >
> I've used the debugger to conclusively prove that this is not so with
> 5.0.14D4.
>
> Given the previous code snippets this evaluates false in the debugger:
>
> if:   FileName eq "customer"
>
> while this evaluates true:
>
> if: FileName eq "customer            "

Correct, but both "customer" and "customer   " will lookup to the
file named "customer".

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