fieldname()

[Bruce Easton]

It should work using the alias as in: 'FName=fieldname(defile,fn)'.

I notice you spelled the alias two different ways here - 'defile' and 
delfile'.  Could it just be a typo?

Bruce

On 9/18/18 12:28 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
> I am having a problem getting this function to work.
>
> According to the manual the command should be fn = fieldname(lookup,n) where n is the field number of the field wanted.
>
> The issue I am having is that I am using a long variable for the lookup which passes the if: Not alias.
>
>    -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>      ◄ If:
>      Then: lookup defile = (FileName)  k=lv   i=A –npx
> 80  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>         ◄ If:         NOT defile and deleteFiles[ct+"1"] ne ""  '
>         Then:         CLEARS;ct=ct+"1";GOTO do_next
> 81  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ◄ If:
>        Then:         fn(3,.0)="3"
> 82  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ◄ If:
>        Then:         FName=fieldname((filename),fn)
>
> I have tried FName=fieldname(delfile,fn) where defile is the alias to the filename in the long variable Filename.
>
> Am I doing something incorrectly?
>
> Does anyone know if the function can resolve a long variable or the alias?
>
> To answer another question, I can’t just use the actual file name as there are 15 files which are being processed with the file names stored in an array Called DeleteFiles.
>
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
>
>
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