MOVE from SPECIAL Field - 5.6

[Nancy Palmquist]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Nancy Palmquist (Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:54:36 -0400):
> 
> 
>>Guys & Gals,
>>
>>I am doing a lookup and trying to get the data in the field
>>
>>lookup xxx=filename r=rn -n
>>
>>ab(13)=xxx(1)
>>
>>
>>When I do this assignment, it pops a message on the screen that says:
>>
>>NO Support for a MOVE from a special field.
>>Call filePro Technical Support
>>
>>I can not get the data from xxx(1) to assign to any field, I can display
>>the value but can not assign it.
>>
>>What the heck is up with that??  Anyone know..
> 
> 
> Not sure why you sent this to the mailing list, rather than to
> fpsupport as the message indicated.  :-)
> 
> In any case, that's a "this can never happen" trap.  What is xxx(1)
> defined as?

Ken and all other interested parties,

The file executing the lookup did not have the edit available that was 
in the looked up file.  When I copied the edit to the local table it 
worked as expected.

Since I was reading not writing the data, this is very puzzling.  I 
could understand the processing having a problem if I wanted to write 
the data to the file with an edit it did not understand, but on a read, 
that makes little sense.

But that gave me the clue I needed.  I have been messing with this for 
over any hour and it was making me nuts.

Nancy




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