Re: STRQMQRY

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 19:19 09/23/1998 , David Christensen wrote:
>I'm looking for information on using variables in the STRQMQRY command.  I
>want to prompt the user for the month number in a CL program and use the
>response as the Variable Value in the SETVAR parameter.  It seems that the
>reply variable from the SNDUSRMSG command has to be character and no matter
>what approach I take, I can't get the variable to be seen as numeric - the
>tick marks (' ') are always seen around the value.  Anyone know how to make
>this work?

If you dump the program, does the variable actually contain the apostrophe 
characters? If so, you could do something like:
  CHGVAR VAR(&RPY) VALUE(%SST(&RPY 2 2))
  IF COND(%SST(&RPY 2 1) *EQ '''') THEN(+
      CHGVAR VAR(&RPY) VALUE(%SST(&RPY 1 1)))


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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