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S.J. Kadish
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We want to convert the output from a HOLD file:
TABLE FILE SECRET_DATA
PRINT MONTH
BY YEAR
BY HIGHEST 1 MONTH
WHERE YEAR EQ '06'
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD0
END
-RUN
-DEFAULTS &YR = '06';
-SET &MO = HOLD0.MONTH;
-SET &YR_MO = '20' | &YR | &MO ;
-SET &YEAR = '20' | &YR;
-SET &YR_MO_DA = '20' | &YR | &MO | '01';

but the &MO passed through is the literal text
'HOLD0.MONTH'.



If anybody can, Focal Point can!


Sandy Kadish
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Posts: 238 | Location: Atlanta, GA/Rehovot, Israel | Registered: May 06, 2003Report This Post
Tony A
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Sandy,

You can not pass data direct from a file to a DM variable in this manner, you have to read it in first -

TABLE FILE SECRET_DATA
BY HIGHEST year
BY HIGHEST 1 month 
WHERE year EQ '2006'
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE SAVE AS HOLD0 FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN

-DEFAULTS &YR = '06';

-READ HOLD0 &Year.A4. &MO.A2.
-*SET &MO = HOLD0.MONTH;
-SET &YR_MO = '20' | &YR | &MO ;
-SET &YEAR = '20' | &YR;
-SET &YR_MO_DA = '20' | &YR | &MO | '01';


T


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Lenny Ward
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I always thought that would be a great new feature for WebFOCUS, the ability to set an &var directly from the TABLE request without having to do the hold file and then READ.

Something like this.

TABLE FILE SECRET_DATA
PRINT MONTH SET &MO
YEAR SET &YR
BY YEAR
BY HIGHEST 1 MONTH
WHERE YEAR EQ '06'
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END

-* This would display the value from the SET
-TYPE &MO
-TYPE &YR


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