fieldname()

[Fairlight]

Uhm...  If your first argument is supposed to be the lookup, not a
filename, then you want:

FName=fieldname(defile,fn)

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 04:28:07PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 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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