FIELDTEXT mystery

[Robert J.M. Edis]

G'day Nick

I support Ron's suggestion - put the logic in the field PROCESS procedure,
not the EDIT procedure.

Blue

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Tippler [mailto:NT204@cus.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 4:40 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: FIELDTEXT mystery


Afternoon All

I have a procedure which tests the value of FIELDTEXT for one field, and
changes the contents of a second field, based on the given value.
However, somewhere after EDIT and before OUTPUT, the FIELDTEXT for the
first field assumes the ASCII(value) of the second field:

PROCEDURE EDIT     FIELD_1
BEGIN
    IF         FIELDTEXT = "E"
          THEN LET FIELD_2 = 2
       ELSE IF FIELDTEXT = "O"
          THEN LET FIELD_2 = 1
       ELSE IF FIELDTEXT = "C"
          THEN LET FIELD_2 = 6
   DISPLAY FIELD_2
END

Any idea how I can stop this?

Regards
 
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