RE: Missing Semi-Colon - Not

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

Now that embedded SQL can be written in free form, you probably can't 
use select for a variable name anymore.

Vern

At 07:11 AM 6/8/2007, you wrote:

> No Thats not right I have many programs with a field called Select 
> in they work ok
>
> Steve
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> Jerry,
>
> I think (judging from the colour tokenizing) that you can't use Select as
> a field name.
>
> It's probably a reserved word, thus a big nono.
>
> HTH,
>
> Peter Colpaert
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> I am definitely losing it.  Perhaps because it's early in the morning.
> I am getting the following error while entering the following line.
> While this snippet is from WDSc, I get the same error in SEU so this is
> not a WDSc issue.
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>          Select = 'LIBR/NV' + %editc(l$cust : 'X');
> RNF5507E A semi-colon is not specified at the end of a free-format
> specification.
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> This is odd because, as you can see, there is a semi-colon at the end of
> the line.  Odd, too, is that the examples in the ILE RPG Reference
> manual are in fixed format, while nearly every other %bif is in /free
> format.
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