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Josh K
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(FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED

Is there a way around this?

What's causing the error is I'm trying to pass in a value like 
'        2311'
to check against a field that is of type A12.

WHERE TLMMCU EQ &BRANCH   -* throws the error


WHERE TLMMCU EQ '        2311' -* works, but I need the users to be able to choose the value from a dropdown


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Waz
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So the field TLMMCU is A12.

Does the variable &BRANCH contain 
"'        2311'"
or 
"        2311"


If it does not contain single quotes, then use:
WHERE TLMMCU EQ '&BRANCH'


Waz...

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Twanette
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Hi
quote:
If it does not contain single quotes, then use:WHERE TLMMCU EQ '&BRANCH'

... and an alternative to the above is to use
WHERE TLMMCU EQ &BRANCH.QUOTEDSTRING


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Josh K
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Thanks guys. I finally got it to work with this:

TLMMCU EQ '        &BRANCH'


I thought I tried that already and it didn't work, but I guess not because now its working.


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Your field has leading spaces ?


Waz...

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susannah
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use IF instead of WHERE when comparing a field to a constant
IF makes the assumption that whatever you're comparing to is a contstant.
WHERE does the opposite,
so it needs the quotes, either as Twanette does it or as Waz does, but i echo Waz... your alpha field is really right adjusted? wicked wierd. you might want to DEFINE that issue away with a
TLMMCU/An = LJUST(...
then your filtering will be easier



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