RE previous email regarding using mid with a dim - Error Message received

[Richard D. Williams]

You can not refer to an array position as name(2). This is the value of 
field 2.
It must be name("2").

Richard

On 11/10/2023 1:22 PM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
> I do not think it is allowed to use a lookup name in an mid.  If you 
> not that it says DIM  NAME, if the name(2) is an array, it should be 
> name("2") unless you want the field 2 to be the array counter.
>
> Nancy
>
> On 5/16/2022 7:02 AM, Walter Vaughan Jr via Filepro-list wrote:
>> I'm sure someone will know in  a second, but I think you need to go 
>> back to a few steps
>>
>> 1) it may not be an issue, but why are you using what could be a 
>> reserved "name" for an array? Even if it's supposed to okay, just don't.
>> 2) prove that the array lookup is working
>> 3) prove you can get the first ascii character out that array
>> 4) prove you can convert that ascii character to an integer
>>
>> You were working on this late on a Sunday night, but I think if you 
>> break it down to the component steps you will find where what you 
>> need to do to make this perform.
>>
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>> Subject: RE previous email regarding using mid with a dim - Error 
>> Message received
>>
>> This is the error message I When I run the program And select option 2
>>
>> The process passes the syntax check
>>
>> Array index out of range: dim name(6) - index: 0
>>
>> Input processing sel_note_PDF
>>
>> Line @: 86
>> S=mid(name(2),"1","1");GOTO neo2
>> ^
>>
>> invalid Argument
>>
>> Process contains a syntax error at the position indicated.
>>
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