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ccollier
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I'm currently trying to put a value of a field from a table into a variable. I'm using -READ, but it doesn't seem to be working.

TABLE FILE SF2BANNER
BY HIGHEST 1 RUN_NUMBER
ON TABLE HOLD AS HIGHEST_RUN
END
-RUN
-READ HIGHEST_RUN, &HIGHEST_RUN.I4.

When checking the -TYPE of the variable, I'm receiving nothing. I decided to try it with another field from another table. The value that should be populating the variable should be 9904, but instead I get "°&" as the value when checking the type.

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MartinY
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Try this instead, you have a format error which READFILE manage automatically
TABLE FILE SF2BANNER
BY HIGHEST 1 RUN_NUMBER
ON TABLE HOLD AS HIGHEST_RUN
END
-RUN
-READFILE HIGHEST_RUN
-RUN
-TYPE &RUN_NUMBER


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ccollier
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After first setting a default to &RUN_NUMBER that seemed to work Martin. Thanks!


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Hallway
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READFILE FTW!!

Good One


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Waz
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BTW, the underlying issue is probably that the file is binary.

Changing the format of the hold to ALPHA will fix the issue.

Also, I prefer -READFILE as well.


Waz...

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