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  3. October 2005

RE: LEFT Error (Or PICNIC Error...) REFORMATTED

> OK This is driving me freeking nuts. What is wrong with this 
> eval statement?
> 
> IPT1 and IPT2 are 15 character alpha fields.  LN is a 2.0 
> numberic field.
> 
> The errors are from the compiler.
> 
>               EVAL      IPT2 = LEFT(IPT1,LN)
>  >                                      abb
>  >                                       cc
> *RNF0604 20 a The token is not valid; token is ignored.
> *RNF0312 20 b A right parenthesis is expected but is not found.
> *RNF5377 20 c The end of the expression is expected.
> 
> 
> PLEASE tell me whats wrong or just hit me!!
> 
> Yes that's a comma above the 'a'.

SWAG:  Is IPT1 an array?  If not, shouldn't it be a colon instead of a
comma?
Like this:

   EVAL      IPT2 = LEFT(IPT1:LN)

> numberic field.

I just noticed this.  Is "numberic" a new data type? <g>

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