Glad you got it working. :) Tim Rude
----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DataPerfect, Shell and WP51 Macros and variables > Tim, > > Thank you for the reply. After a lot of effort I worked out how do this. > It is possible to include a Shell variable in a WP macro using the {Shell > Variable} command. The version of the WP51 manual did not include this > command. > > In the end I can acheive the search and replace I desired by creating a WP > macro as follows: > > {Replace}n{Shell Variable}1~{Search}{Shell Variable}2~{Search} > > and run the WP macro from a Shell macro (which assigns the Shell Variables. > > > Victor Warner > > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:09:27 +0100, Tim Rude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Victor, > > > > I don't have access to WP 5.1 anymore, but I do have WP 6.0 DOS. In WP60 > > you > > can read from and write to Shell macro variables from a WP macro, but not > > vice versa. In other words, you can't poke a value into a WP macro > > variable > > using Shell, but you can pull a value from a Shell macro variable and > > save > > it into a WP macro variable using a WP macro, and you can poke a value > > into > > a Shell macro variable using a WP macro. > > > > I don't recall if WP51 macros had that same ability. I think they might > > but > > I don't recall exactly how. It's been far too long since I worked with > > WP51. > > Maybe it was something in the {SYSTEM}sysvar~ function that let you read > > a > > Shell macro variable? I just can't remember. > > > > Tim Rude > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Victor Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:38 PM > > Subject: [Dataperf] DataPerfect, Shell and WP51 Macros and variables > > > > > >> Although this is strictly a macro question, it relates to processing > >> DataPerfect data. > >> > >> Using a Shell macro (using the Screen Copy Mode of shell) I have > >> assigned > >> the contetns of a couple of fields to a couple of Shell variables. I > >> would > >> like to pass those values to WP51 variables for use in a WP51 macro so > >> that I can change DataPerfect data saved as a merge file before it is > >> reimported into DataPerfect > >> > >> The Shell macro reference manual states that the passing of the values > >> is > >> possible (using the Ctrl-PgUp command), but the example given does not > >> work (at least for me). > >> > >> Would anyone in this discussion group know about this and/or be able to > >> help me? If so I can then type out the example given in the reference > >> manual. > >> > >> Any help would be gratefully received. > >> > >> Victor Warner > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dataperf mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dataperf mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
