RE: Missing Semi-Colon - Not

["Hillier, Martin" <Martin.Hillier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yea - I was being daft. Select is an rpg op code

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Subject: Re: Missing Semi-Colon - Not

I hate it when my day starts like this.  You were exactly right, Peter.


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Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
> Application Developer
> PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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> Missing Semi-Colon - Not
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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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