And the continuation characters at the end of a line... How many times did I put a + at the end of a VB line??
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 2:17 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: concat variables And the quotes are different in VB! It’s fun getting your brain to context switch consistently! Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 2:14 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: concat variables I used to get confused between doing it the RBase way and the Visual Basic way. In VB you always use the & sign, not a + sign, and you have to specifically include spaces because VB doesn't put the space in like RBase does! Needless to say, I would often do the VB one wrong! Karen -----Original Message----- From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 1:44 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: concat variables Javier, True, but I use & religiously to do the spacing as it is easier to see in the code. Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Javier Valencia Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 1:30 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: concat variables Dennis, SET VAR vWhereClause = ('WHERE ' + .vReportWhere) And... SET VAR vWhereClause = ('WHERE ' & .vReportWhere) Will give you the exact same result. R:Base will not strip spaces (blank after WHERE) in the middle of an expression. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 1:06 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: concat variables SET VAR vReportWhere = 'Item_Number = 100' SET VAR vReportName = 'IM_ALL_1' SET VAR vReportOrderBy = 'Item_Number ASC'' --RBASE strips trailing spaces so use & to put the pieces together SET VAR vWhereClause = ('WHERE ' & .vReportWhere) SET VAR vOrderBy = ('ORDER BY ' & .vReportOrderBy') PRINT &vReportName &vWhereClause &vOrderBy OPTION SCREEN When you use and Ampersand instead of a dot in front of a variable, the exact contents of the variable are read by the interpreter as part of the command The above syntax looks like the following to the interpreter: PRINT IM_ALL_1 WHERE Item_Number = 100 ORDER BY Item_Number ASC OPTION SCREEN Trace your command file and watch the variables to see what each one actually contains. Errors should become apparent quickly. Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Brock Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 12:36 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - concat variables I am trying to print using variables and can not get it to work. I am sending in variables SET VAR vReportWhere = 'Item_Number = 100' SET VAR vReportName = 'IM_ALL_1' SET VAR vReportOrderBy = 'Item_Number' Then i set new variables based on the above SET VAR vWhereClause = ' WHERE ' + .vReportWhere + ' ' SET VAR vOrderBy = ' ORDER BY ' + .vReportOrderBy' + ' ASC ' Then i try and call a PRINT command PRINT .vReportName .vWhereClause .vOrderBy OPTION SCREEN I have tried putting + which is not suppose to add a space I have tried putting & which is suppose to add a space Still nothing works unless i try PRINT IM_ALL_1 WHERE Item_Number = 100 ORDER BY Item_Number ASC OPTION SCREEN Where is my syntax wrong? Thanks, Matthew D. Brock
