Using WRITE() on 5.0 - running on Linux

[Jeff Harrison]

--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com> wrote:

> From: Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com>
> Subject: Re: Using WRITE() on 5.0 - running on Linux
> To: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 4:48 PM
> Jeff Harrison wrote:
> > --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> >   
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> > <Snip>
> > 
> > Nancy, is it possible that you are hitting @wbrk2 4
> times and ofile is not blank?  I seem to recall that
> there was a bug or quirk with long field names in output
> processing not where the values were not carrying over
> properly.  Perhaps declaring ofile in automatic
> processing will clear this up.
> > 
> > You will probably be able to see what is going on with
> the debugger of course.
> >   
> Jeff,
> 
> Thank you for the response, but I already used the debugger
> and before the WRITE() line, I have no ending, after the
> WRITE() line I have 4 endings.
> I think it proves it is a bug, but just wanted some
> confirmation. Nancy

So, you are saying that the debugger shows that @wbrk2 is only being executed once - and yet you get 4 writes?  Yes, if that is the case it certainly sounds like a bug.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com