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Joe Beydoun
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I'm trying to create this statement:

-SET &WHERE_DATE = IF &COMPARE EQ 'ON' THEN 'WHERE (DATE GE &STARTDATE AND DATE LE &ENDDATE) OR (DATE GE &STARTDATE2 AND DATE LE &ENDDATE2);' ELSE 'WHERE DATE GE &STARTDATE AND DATE LE &ENDDATE;';

However, with the single quotes, the varibles are being passed as literals and not replaced with the value sent from the procedure. I've toyed about with double-quote, some more singles, haven't figured it out yet.

Your help is appreciated.

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Waz
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You need to use the variables as fields and concatenate them to the string.

-SET &WHERE_DATE = IF &COMPARE EQ 'ON' THEN 'WHERE (DATE GE ' | &STARTDATE | ' AND DATE LE ' | &ENDDATE 
- | ') OR (DATE GE ' | &STARTDATE2 | ' AND DATE LE ' | &ENDDATE2 | ');' ELSE 'WHERE DATE GE ' | &STARTDATE 
- | ' AND DATE LE ' | &ENDDATE | ';';


The other option is to add .EVAL to the variables, but that can be dangerous, as if thevariable has an embedded quote, the line may fail.


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Joe Beydoun
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Thx for the response, I tried concatenation earlier and got this result from the parser:

-SET &WHERE_DTEI = IF ON EQ 'ON' THEN 'WHERE (ZHEDTEI GE ' | 20101201 | ' AND ZHEDTEI LE ' | 20101203 - | ') OR (ZHEDTEI GE ' | 20101206 | ' AND ZHEDTEI LE ' | 20101207 | ');' ELSE 'WHERE ZHEDTEI GE ' | 20101201 - | ' AND ZHEDTEI LE ' | 20101203 | ';';

(FOC260) AN OPERATION IS MISSING AN ARGUMENT


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Joe Beydoun
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The .EVAL worked great, I would like to heed your warnings though, but this particular scenario "should" never see embedded quotes.

so help with the concatenation syntax would be appreciated.


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Waz
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Is the -SET command on one line or three ?

The code I posted was on three lines.

The continuation character (first char) is a '-'.

In your post it is one line of code.


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Joe Beydoun
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Ok, I feel like a little grasshopper, I didn't even know about continuation characters.

Works great, thanks Waz.


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Joe,

me too... Roll Eyes

don't feel bad, I've been looking for this also, couldn't find it either.

And it's impossible to find in de help. If it's there at all. ( should be in language documentation I think. )

Thanks Waz.


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-SET &STARTDATE = &YYMD;
-SET &ENDDATE = &YYMD+5;
-SET &STARTDATE2 = &YYMD+10;
-SET &ENDDATE2 = &ENDDATE+10;
-SET &COMPARE = ON;
-TYPE &STARTDATE
-TYPE &ENDDATE
-TYPE &STARTDATE2
-TYPE &ENDDATE2

-SET &WHERE_DATE = IF &COMPARE NE 'ON' THEN 'WHERE DATE GE ''&STARTDATE.EVAL'' AND DATE LE ''&ENDDATE.EVAL'';'
-ELSE 'WHERE (DATE GE ''&STARTDATE.EVAL'' AND DATE LE ''&ENDDATE.EVAL'') OR (DATE GE ''&STARTDATE2.EVAL'' AND DATE LE ''&ENDDATE2.EVAL'');';
-TYPE &WHERE_DATE
-EXIT


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