sending more than 5 values to a dclerk from command line

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/3/2015 11:53 AM, James Flanagan wrote:
> Filepro 5.7.0.4 FreeBSD
>
> I am working on an external mechanism (outside of filepro) where i would
> like a user to be able to send 12 or more keywords to dreport via a unix
> command line, and then using a V table, it will limit the records to
> those keywords, and then it will generate the desired report.  that said,
> i only have @PM, @PW, @PX, @PY and @PZ to work with .  what is the most
> elegant way to get 12 or more keywords into a V table?  Should i use the
> 5 existing R flags and use a MID command to chop them up into the
> multiple values?  Is there another, better way to accomplish this?
> thank you very much, in advance.

There are several ways.

*  Putting fixed-length values into the parameter variables, and MID()
    them back out.

*  Put them in delimited values in the parameter variables, and use
    INSTR() and MID() to pull them out.

*  Use PUTENV to put them into the environment and GETENV() to read
    them.

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Kenneth Brody