Re: Gotcha: Odd Error

Gotcha: Odd Error

Author: Gene Wirchenko

Posted: 2017-04-21 14:43:29 Link

Hello:

A line of code was throwing an error at run-time:

if !doseek(str(&alraw..trnnbr),6))

Note the extra right parenthesis before the comma. Because of the &,

the error was not reported during compilation. After all, alraw

could contain a left parenthesis.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Re: Gotcha: Odd Error

Author: Ted Roche

Posted: 2017-04-21 14:49:56 Link

Any line containing an & for macro expansion is not parsed at

compilation time, since the & could contain any expression.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:

> Hello:

> A line of code was throwing an error at run-time:

> if !doseek(str(&alraw..trnnbr),6))

> Note the extra right parenthesis before the comma. Because of the &, the

> error was not reported during compilation. After all, alraw could contain a

> left parenthesis.

> Sincerely,

> Gene Wirchenko

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