Re: Clever UNIX/C Constructs

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 D.BALE@handleman.com wrote:

> Given the examples in the survey, couldn't we just as well do this?:
> 
>     /free
>        str = str + 'text';      // append 'text' to str
>        date = date + %days(7);  // add 7 days to date
>        num = num - 17;          // decrement num by 17
>        num = num * 2;           // multiply num by 2
>        array(findStart(array:start)+offset) =
> array(findStart(array:start)+offset) + 1;
>     /end-free
> 
> Er, doesn't "eval str = str + 'text'" result in field str being unchanged?
> Presuming that the += operates the same way, it will be fairly useless for
> concatenating text to a string.  Unless they'll make it *act* like "eval str =
> %TRIMR(str) + 'text'".
> 


What if str is a "varying" field?


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