Bernie, Try: set var afrt = &xfrt
Ben Petersen On 2 Oct 2001, at 21:41, Bernard Lis wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C14B8B.0FF471A0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > error message: doesn't return a valid currency > > set var afrt curr, xfrt text > > set var afrt =3D .xfrt > > This works at the R> it doesn't work within a command file, it gives = > the above message. > > is this a legal way to convert text to curr? > > Bernie Lis > Megabytes, Inc. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C14B8B.0FF471A0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4616.200" name=3DGENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>error message: doesn't return a = > valid=20 > currency</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>set var afrt curr, xfrt = > text</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>set var afrt =3D .xfrt</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This works at the = > R> it=20 > doesn't work within a command file, it gives the above = > message.</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>is this a legal way to convert text to=20 > curr?</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bernie Lis</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Megabytes, = > Inc.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > > ------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C14B8B.0FF471A0-- > >
