PROBABLY SOLVED: PRINTER NAME variable?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Feb 20 16:04:10 PST 2008


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 06:49:08PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:36:21 -0500):
> >>And, coincidentally, you have a variable called "barcode".
> >
> >In fact I do not have one; I never declare long variable names; I don't
> >believe there are any arrays in the code either.  [searches]
> >
> >As my memory lead me to believe, the string 'barcode' appears *one
> >place* in that table; in the FORM command.
> >
> >So... *why* didn't I get a runtime error, if not a syntax error?
> 
> Then you probably have a field named "barcode".

I have two fields whose names *begin* with barcode, but they both have
other characters in the name; what, *precisely*, is the syntactical
specification there, and where is it documented?

Cheers,
-- jra
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