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Ron F
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If I create any procedure containing the character string %u, the procedure will refuse to save:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
MODEL
BODYTYPE
SALES
WHERE MODEL LIKE '%u';
END

Try to save and you get "Unable to save file IBFS://blah/blah/blah/wildcard.fex"


Any idea why this is and if there is a workaround? I'm using version 7.14
 
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Kamesh
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I tried to save it on my DevStudio 7.1.6 it worked.


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Leah
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I tried it in 7.1.6 MRE and it worked, but it doesn't work in 5.3.6 MRE. I have Java 1.6.1 installed as the Java 1.5..9 would not allow report caster to run under 5.3.6, go figure.


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KevinG
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In 7.1.3, I don't even get an error message...the combination of '%u' wipes out all code in the fex.

Kevin


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KevinG
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Furthermore,

It happens in every editing tool in Dev Studio including Notepad. Notepad works fine outside of the Dev Studio environment, but trying to save a fex to a Reporting Server with Notepad from Dev Studio gives the same behavior...contents of fex are wiped out!!!


WF 7.6.10 / WIN-AIX
 
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Ron F
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I tried to save it on my DevStudio 7.1.6 it worked.


Thanks. I'll see what we have available to upgrade to.
 
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Ron F
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I upgraded Developer Studio to 7.61 and I am still getting the error. I'm guessing this is caused by the WebFocus server (which is still on either 7.14 or 7.16) and not the Developer Studio client as I initially thought. I guess I'll have to wait until our sysadmin has a chance to upgrade.
 
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susannah
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have you tried using the pipe, which is the escape character for the & ?
&|U
or, the unicode value of the & sign, which you can google.



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hammo1j
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This is another example of why C++ is such a dangerous language to write applications in.

%u is a formatting character that can be embedded in a stream write function (eg printf) to expect a unformatted int as part of the argument. The wf code is not providing it hence the write fails.

btw This is a standard method your C++ code can be hacked!


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