readline syntax error

[Richard Kreiss]

I again misquoted myself.

The code was:

Xx=readline(aa,ab)
If:ab eq ""
Then: RETURN

When I, at line 44 aa=open(pfile,"rt");ab(1024,*)

That is when the syntax error at readline() stopped.

I think we are both saying the same thing but a bit differently.

Richard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:26 PM
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> Subject: RE: readline syntax error
> 
> Quoting GCC Consulting (Wed, 7 May 2008 15:23:11 -0400):
> 
> > Apparently my follow up post did not reach the list.
> >
> > Problem was that ab was uncast.  When I added
> > ab(1024,*)=readline(aa,ab), the syntax error disappeared.
> >
> > Ken, ab is only referenced in this part of the program.
> 
> The problem is not that ab was "uncast", but "undefined".  The code
> snippet
> you included had only one reference to "ab" -- inside the READLINE()
> call.
> If you never actually defined a variable "ab", then it is a syntax
> error to
> attempt to pass the non-existent field to READLINE().
> 
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