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jshiley
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I'm in the middle of a painful upgrade from 7.7.03 to 8.105M. I hit an error in a report that uses this code:

-* Store the number of columns in a variable
TABLE FILE HCOLUMNS
PRINT
COLUMN_NUMBER
BY HIGHEST 1 COLUMN_NUMBER NOPRINT
ON TABLE SAVE AS S1
END

The error is "(FOC303) CONTROL LINE NOT RECOGNIZED IN FOCEXEC: -REPEAT COLUMN_LIST FOR I FROM 1 TO &COLUMN_CNT STEP 1"

I've searched Focal Point and see no mentions of REPEAT and WF8. I searched the WF8 technical doc and can't find any mention of REPEAT or any command for a loop. Anyone know if this is supposed to still be supported and if not, what command to use for a loop?

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jshiley
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hmmm, the REPEAT Command was stripped out when I posted.

"-REPEAT COLUMN_LIST FOR &I FROM 1 TO &COLUMN_CNT STEP 1
TABLE FILE HCOLUMNS
PRINT
COLUMN_ALIAS
WHERE COLUMN_NUMBER EQ &I
ON TABLE SAVE AS S2
END"


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Waz
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Did you have a semicolon at the end of the -REPEAT line ?


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Wep5622
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Judging the error message, somehow your -REPEAT statement gets interpreted as a FOCUS statement. Apparently dialog manager did not evaluate that bit of code.

Is the dash of your -REPEAT statement at the start of the line (character position 0)?
Or perhaps a previous dialog manager statement that requires a closing semi-colon doesn't have one?


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Thank-you. The issue was the semi-colon. This version worked:

"-REPEAT COLUMN_LIST FOR &I FROM 1 TO &COLUMN_CNT; STEP 1;"


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