[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/26/2007 01:16:44 PM: > I got stuck with file names like CLIENT-MASTER, CLIENT-CRED-FILE, etc. > You should convert dashes in file names to periods or underscores in the > variable names. Otherwise, you get: > OPEN 'CLIENT-MASTER' TO CLIENT-MASTER.FILE ... > READ CLIENT-MASTER.REC FROM CLIENT-MASTER.FILE, CLIENT-MASTER.ID ... > > UV compiler doesn't like variables with dashes. >
It's not just Universe. Not many compilers will like variables with dashes. With CLIENT-MASTER.FILE, the compiler would think that you wanted to subtract MASTER.FILE from CLIENT. For example, try this (if it even compiles, that is): CLIENT = 3 MASTER.FILE = 1 TEMP = CLIENT-MASTER.FILE PRINT TEMP It should print out 2 -------------------------------------------------- Charlie Rubeor Senior Database Administrator Wiremold/Legrand 60 Woodlawn Street West Hartford, CT 06110 Tel: 860-233-6251 x3498 Fax: 860-523-3690 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------- ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
