invalid argument system runtime error on line with variablelookup

[Bruce Easton]

Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:42 PM:
> 
> Quoting Bruce Easton (Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:34:29 -0400):
> 
> > Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:17 PM:
> >>
> >> Quoting Bill Akers (Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:33:08 -0500):
> >>
> >> > Bruce Easton wrote:
> >> >> I'm getting a filepro runtime error:
> >> >>
> >> >>  *** A System Error has occurred ***
> >> >>  on file: \dvr/filepro/DEUDAS/map
> >> >>  Line: 1407  invalid argument
> >> >>
> >> >> from an rclerk process (Windows fp ver. 5.07)
> >> >>
> >> >> where line 1406 and 1407 in the processing are:
> >> >>
> >> >>   If:
> >> >> Then: fileq = filen{"@"{qual{""
> >> >> ----- -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
> [...]
> > never called (from my scripts lines) with a qualifier (against the
> > file that I am running from), therefore, in my variable named
> > lookup expression, I intentionally use the "@" after the filename
> > expression, and *sometimes* append a qualifier to it (for the
> > file that I am lookup up to).
> >
> > This has worked fine under Unix with fp5.14.
> >
> > Also, if this is the problem, then wouldn't clerk at least
> > wait until the program got to the line to evaluate the lookup
> > before coming up with a system error?  I didn't get a syntax
> > error for it.
> 
> If it's giving you a filename along with the line number, then it has
> executed processing and has reached that line.  It's not possible for
> it to be giving you the correct lookup name without processing having
> been executed, and the filename calculated at runtime.
> 
> I do note that your original message says "rclerk", which of course
> has no debugger.  I assume you ran dclerk when you tried to debug it.
> 
> Put a "DEBUG ON" just before the lookup and try it again.
> 

Ken - your suspicions were correct about my attempting to use the debugger.
I must have used rlcerk, because this time the debugger did come on.
The debugger shows that:

fileq="DEUDAS@" and 
rv="     282" right before that 
same filepro error comes up.

(I have the lookup line now configured the original way of:
lookup  readd = (fileq)  r=rv -n
)

Bruce 

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.