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Unicode problem

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:02:05 GMT

Hi All,

I have got a slight problem when turning unicode on for a program that has been developed in our system. It is basically a problem with the following field symbol assign command

ASSIGN PATH+PATHLENGTH TO <P>.

When I select the 'unicode checks active' check box i get the following error message: "You cannot use ASSIGN f+offset. Always use an explicit length (or '*')" I know this will be fair easy to recode so that it does not use a field symbols but i was just wondering if anyone had a generic solution to fix this as we have quite a few programs that need changing!

Thanks in advance

regards

Mart

Re: Unicode problem

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:04:04 GMT

Try this..

Store the valuewith offset in another variable

V_VAR = PATH+PATHLENGTH

then..

ASSIGN V_VAR TO

Re: Unicode problem

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:08:10 GMT

Hi,

If the PATH is a charecter type field then you should not get the error, or else move it to a char field and write the code

Regards

Sudheer

Re: Unicode problem

Former Member — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:21:18 GMT

Excellent thanks Chandrasekhar that seems to work and has got rid of the error message.

PATH is in fact a Char 255 so am not sure why this error came up if its not supposed too! oh well

Thanks again

Regards

Mart