This doesn't read very well here
" set £1!!!!=''",
I guess £1 stands for #1 outside the UK, and I don't understand what these
!!!! are supposed to do
Ignoring !!!! it would mean you try to assign counter 1 to an empty
string. It are counters, hence only accept numeric values
Kris Buelens,
--- VM/VSE consultant, Belgium ---
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Op za 26 nov. 2022 om 11:00 schreef Alain Benveniste <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I try to compare characters fields (a, b and c) in the if using this way
> and the !!!! concatenation.
> Both cases send me a error msg.
> The sets seem ok, but when testing them in the if it looks to me I use a
> wrong syntax...
>
> "! SPECs",
> " a: 54.5 .",
> " b: 67.10 .",
> " c: 85.4 .",
> " set £1!!!!=''",
> " set £2!!!!=''",
> " set £3!!!!=''",
> " set £4:=0",
> " set £5:=0",
> " if (£1=a & £2=b & £3=c) then",
> " set £4+=1",
> " set £5:=1",
> " else",
> " set £4:=1",
> " set £5+=1",
> " set £1!!!!=a",
> " set £2!!!!=b",
> " set £3!!!!=c",
> " endif",
> " 1-* 1",
> " print £4 picture 99999 nextword",
> " print £5 picture 99999 next",
>
> Alain
>
>
