Thank you too. Patti --- On Tue, 7/29/08, A. Razzak Memon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: A. Razzak Memon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CHKFILE command To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 12:18 AM At 08:04 PM 7/28/2008, Patti Jakusz wrote: >I'm having no luck using the CHKFILE command. I've tried 3 >different ways of writing my code and I keep getting messages >that don't make sense with the whole idea of the command. >set v ve2 INT >set v ve2 = (CHKFILE(filename.txt)) >(and I know my file exists - I've tried a few different names.) >I get the following errors: Column or variable filename.txt not >found (2515) when I close that one, I get: Expression cannot be >evaluated (2179) You MUST enclose the file name with your database default quotes. Here's how: Example: SET VAR ve2 = (CHKFILE('filename.txt')) OR SET VAR ve2 = (CHKFILE("filename.txt")) That's all there is to it! Very Best R:egards, Razzak.

