Christmas miracle?

Posted by ksv on 28-Dec-2009 03:53

Can anyone predict what result the following code will show?

&GLOBAL-DEFINE xx ";>"

MESSAGE {&xx} = ";>"
   VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

I failed totally and lost an hour trying to find the error which was a weird peculiarityof ABL

Can anyone explain what that peculiarity is for?

Thanks in advance.

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Posted by Admin on 28-Dec-2009 04:43

That is indeed a surprise (preprocessor output)!

(10.2B)

Posted by Peter Judge on 28-Dec-2009 08:21

Look at the "; Special character" section in the Help (I ran into this a couple of years ago, and also struggled with it).

-- peter

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