Doers mid work with dim

[Richard D. Williams]

MID will work with real fields, looked up fields, and any variables.
But not with array names.

Try this:
z=name("1");s(1,.0)=mid(z,"1","1");

Richard

On 5/15/2022 9:42 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
> I have a menu wich uses dim to vreasat a menu in a -v select processing table
>
> I would like to get the first value (a number) of the selected option. I have tried din name(6)
> Where nsme
> name("1") title"
> s(1,.0)=mid(name("1"),1,1) I get an error message from filePro  pointing The opening parentheses.
>
> Can anyone tell me why am getting this error message?
>
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
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