Don't clear your variables before using either (as a matter of best practice). Set them to null.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Docherty" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:16 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - GetFileExt Plugin Arguments I would appreciate some help with the arguments for a Plugin. I am trying to use the GetFileExt plugin, (PLUGIN GetFileExt vFileExt|vfile) but find that the only way that I can get this to work is to enclose the filename in quotes. If I set a variable to the filename and use that I get a null returned. I tried all possible combinations I could think of as below. (I note that the SET VAR vFileExt = .. is not in my code, but is presumably from the Plugin.) set var vfile text ='Test.XLS' PLUGIN GetFileExt vFileExt|.vfile SET VAR vFileExt = '.vfile' show var vFileExt .vfile clear var vfileExt PLUGIN GetFileExt vFileExt|vfile SET VAR vFileExt = '' show var vFileExt -0- clear var vfileExt PLUGIN GetFileExt vFileExt|&vfile SET VAR vFileExt = '' show var vFileExt -0- clear var vfileExt PLUGIN GetFileExt vFileExt|'Test.XLS' SET VAR vFileExt = '.XLS' show var vFileExt .XLS Presumably I am doing something wrong here. If anyone can tell me what I need to do to make this work that would be very much appreciated. Thank you. Regards, John Docherty
