John, In RBDOS this would work, but in RBWIN there is so much going on inside the report that I would not depend on it working. Instead, I would set up a vWhere variable and :
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM reporttable where &vwhere and limit = 1 IF vCount = 0 then -- Error message ELSE Print report &vwhere ORDER BY .... ENDIF Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Engwer Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:33 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Using the ERROR VARIABLE I have run into a problem when I try to use the error variable to trap errors when printing a report. Here is what my code looks like. SET ERROR VARIABLE vErrVar Print report..... where .... (if the where clause is not satisfied vErrVar should change to 2038) IF vErrVar <> 0 then Display message that no items exist.... ENDIF RETURN This is used to report the results of a search. If the operator enters search criteria where there is no match the operator should get a message that the search failed. If error messages are turned on, a 2038, no rows found is displayed but vErrVar has a value of 0 instead of the expected 2038. Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong? John
