fieldlen question

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Don Coleman <dcoleman at dgcreact.com> wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Harrison
> [mailto:jeffaharrison at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:29 AM
> > To: Don Coleman; filepro-list at seaslug.org
> > Subject: Re: fieldlen question
> > 
> > --- Don Coleman <dcoleman at dgcreact.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Attempting to use fieldlen to determine the
> length
> > > of individual fields I
[snip]
> > 
> > I believe you just need to remove the dash and the
> > comma in your fieldlen statement.  As you have it,
> it
> > appears that you are asking for the length of the
> > field "COLEMAN" in the current filepro file which
> of
> > course is not defined.
> > 
[snip]
> 
> Jeff:
> 
> That fails the syntax check.
> 

Sorry, I was confusing the syntax with the len command
and I don't presently have access to filepro to test
this out.  Perhaps fieldlen needs the argument to be
literal?  Try "AA", or just use the len command.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

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