Re: Type mismatch not being caught at compile time...

That was the only explanation I could come up with, thanks for the
verification Charles.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777



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Re: Type mismatch not being caught at compile time...






Working as designed:

Keys for File Operations (pg 418)
<..>
Data types must match with the corresponding key field, but lengths
and data format do not have to match. Rules for moving data from
expression values to the key build area are the same as for operations
code EVAL in that shorter search arguments are padded on the right
with blanks and longer search arguments are truncated for type
character. If num is specified, that is the number of subfields to use
in the composite key.

HTH,
Charles

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So I think I have a type mismatch that should be caught at compile time
that isn't. The code has worked for sometime now and we just discovered
what we thing "should" have been a compile error. Source compiles fine,
program runs and acts "as expected". The problem comes in with a

logical

being used.

Field Defs.
QuoteNumber 9a
ItemNumber 15a
Quantity 11s 3


The logical is OEBOML1 with the following key...
OQUOTE 6a
OPROD 15a
OPQTY 11s 3
OSEQ 3s 0
OERQT 9a
OQTLN 3s 0

OQUOTE is the first 6 characters of the QuoteNumber - anyway... I have
this statement....

setll (QuoteNumber:ItemNumber:Quantity) oeboml1;
reade (QuoteNumber:ItemNumber:Quantity) oeboml1;
dow not %eof(oeboml1);

What I'm thinking is that I should get a compile error since QuoteNumber
is 9a, not 6a. Shouldn't this be a key mismatch error?

But it doesn't error out. And, on top of that, when I run the code it
acts a I would "want" it to and finds the quotes properly.... at least

as

far as I can tell....

I'm really stumped as to why this "works".... any thoughts?


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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