Maybe that was a Microdata "rule", because I was taught the same exact
thing!
-Dianne
Bill Haskett wrote:
Charlie:
It's funny you should raise Microdata. I was taught to never use EQUATEs
unless I wanted to create a relationship between both sides of the equation.
e.g I'd use the following:
EQUATE APFILE$CUSTDATE TO APFILEREC(1)
This would allow me to manipulate either side of the equate and know both
sides would maintain their common value. I could MATREAD the APFILEREC and
would know that the variable APFILE$CUSTDATE would be assigned
appropriately. I could change the variable APFILE$CUSTDATE and know the
record array would be updated simultaneously, so I could then just MATWRITE
the APFILEREC and be done with it.
However, with "EQUATE VM TO CHAR(254)" there is no such relationship, so I
was taught not to do this as it wasn't the intention of the statement (even
though I could). I think I was taught by someone who was very particular
about these kinds of things. :-)
Bill
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