use dummy field as part of the goto label

[Jeff Harrison]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> To: Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 1:14:28 PM
> Subject: Re: use dummy field as part of the goto label
> 
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 6 May 2008 12:29:56 -0400):
> 
> > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:22:02AM -0700, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> >> > but I'm pretty sure you can't.
> >>
> >> No, but you can do the following, assuming you set up individual 
> >> processing tables:
> >>
> >> call (zz)
> >
> > Is there an authoritative list of the syntactic locations in which you
> > can (dummy) indirect to replace a literal?
> 
> The only places that come to mind immediately are:
> 
> Lookup filename and key.
> Screen name for screen and display.
> 
> The "call (zz)" example above is not relevant, since call takes an
> expression in the first place, and "(expression)" is equivalent to
> "expression".
> 

It is relevant to the original question though, which I interpreted as "how can I get named code to execute based upon a name in a variable string"

Or something like that :-)

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports.


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