This fex:

-SET &ECHO=ALL;

-SET &A_ENV = IF 'aaadevzzz' CONTAINS 'dev' THEN 'D'
- ELSE IF 'aaadevzzz' CONTAINS 'test' THEN 'T'
- ELSE IF 'aaadevzzz' CONTAINS 'uat' THEN 'Q' ELSE 'P';

-SET &A_INT_DB_NAME = 'INT' || &A_ENV;

-TYPE &A_INT_DB_NAME

gives me an error when run on a UNIX server:

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 25 IN PROCEDURE _ADHOCRQFOCEXEC *
(FOC305) SPECIFIED LABEL NOT FOUND: P

When I run the same code on a Windows server, there is no error.

If I put the IF statement on one line, it works.

-SET &A_ENV = IF 'aaadevzzz' CONTAINS 'dev' THEN 'D' ELSE IF 'aaadevzzz' CONTAINS 'test' THEN 'T' ELSE IF 'aaadevzzz' CONTAINS 'uat' THEN 'Q' ELSE 'P';

Welcome to the unix version of WebFOCUS, where all bets are off.

It's even weirder that that. If you save and close the fex so that it's no longer an "ad hoc" fex, it will probably run OK.

We have a case in on it.

Correct me if I am wrong but I use a semi colon to end continuation lines like this

-IF TESTVAL EQ 'A' THEN GOTO 1;
-ELSE IF TESTVAL EQ 'B' THEN GOTO 2;

Thanks,
Kalyan

The semi-colon is used to end the entire statement, not each line.

This runs on our AIX 5.1 correctly with WF 5.3.2, yet fails with WF 4.3.6. I recall that the last version of character based focus that we used (ver 6.9) also failed with the same problem.

Oddly enough, when I had only the lines of code I originally posted, the fex failed. When I embedded the lines of code in an MRE fex, it worked.

Pietro

What happens if you -INCLUDE the original continued lines in a non-MRE focexec?

We don't have MRE here, are using servlet on a unix platform, but are developing with devstudio on Winders.

Suzy