Writing to Real Fields in Automatic Processing Tables

[Bruce Easton]

All right - that's it, Bob look what you did - you went and changed
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Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+bruce=stn.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+bruce=stn.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf
> Of Bob Stockler
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:58 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Writing to Real Fields in Automatic Processing Tables
>
>
> Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:16:17PM -0400):
>
> | Note that the only reason this is allowed by filePro is that the
> | original versions of filePro didn't disallow it, and too many
> | people wrote (broken) code that depends on this (broken) ability.
> | Disallowing it would "break" the (already broken, but "working")
> | code that depends on this.
>
> Many years ago, in a land far away, there was a filePro presence
> on CompuServe, and on that forum . . .
>
>   It took many of us (some still on *this* list) quite a bit of time
>   to convince another subscriber to this list (George Simon) that it
>   wasn't "right" to "write" to REAL fields in Automatic Processing
>   Tables.
>
> Anyone on this list (including George) is encouraged to confirm or
> deny/correct my (admittedly decreasing as age increases) memories.
>
> Bob
>
> PS - The only time I wrote to a REAL field in Automatic Processing
>      was in a work-around situation where I was using Bob Snapp's
>      "Address Matching - Address Correction" software.  filePro's
>      limits of the number lines in a processing table at the time
>      prevented me from putting all of Snapp's code in the input
>      table, so I put it in the automatic table, accesed it there,
>      and went back to the input table.  That code in the automatic
>      table was never reached unless it was accessed via the input
>      table that required it.
>
> --
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