syntax error that shouldn't be

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/13/2014 8:23 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> Take this:
>
> Then: declare MyTest(40,*)
> Then: MyTest="Small String"
> Then: msgbox "orig len:"<len(MyTest)
> Then: msgbox "new len:"<len(""{MyTest{"")
>
> Syntax check coughs at the first quote in "" in the pushleft inside len().
> This is perfectly valid syntax...or should be. len() is documented as
> taking an expression, not simply a field or variable name.
>
> 5.0.14R4

My docs say that LEN() and EDIT() only take fields, not expressions.

-- 
Kenneth Brody