Bug: A really insidious browse bug...

[John Esak]

Why should it produce a syntax error when there is no leading quote... Only
a trailing one? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:16 AM
> To: john.esak at 21appr.com
> Cc: support at fptech.com; 'Lee Machan'; 'glenn.freeman'; 
> 'filePro'; 'Timothy R Barr'
> Subject: Re: Bug: A really insidious browse bug...
> 
> Quoting John Esak (Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:24:43 -0500):
> 
> [...]
> > Well, I found something today that drove me completely 
> nuts... For about an
> > hour.
> >
> > If on the lookup line, which looks something like this...
> >
> > Lookup alias=file k=(key) i=A -nl b=(b_cfg & b_hdr & b_data)
> >
> > You mistakenly do this:
> >
> > Lookup alias=file k=(key) i=A -nl b=(b_cfg & b_hdr & b_data)    *56"
> >
> > And I did this because I usually copy the original browse 
> several times and
> > break it into the 3 vars.  It's just an easy way to change 
> a browse that is
> > already written with the browse wizard.  Anyway, the *56"  
> was hung out way,
> > way past the 80th character on the screen... Meaning OUT OF 
> SITE!!!!  And
> > the syntax checker did NOT catch it!!!!!  (Really, it 
> probably shouldn't be
> [...]
> 
> Strange...  It takes:
> 
>     b=(b_cfg & b_hdr & b_data)    *56"
> 
> as the result of concatenating the fields, then multiplying 
> by field 56.
> 
> It definitely should be giving a syntax error.
> 
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