Strange Quiz data conversion error

[Mike Palandri]

Thanks for all the help.  I've used defines in Quiz as part of the 
selection criteria before, so I should have known what was going on.

At 01:36 PM 02/15/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>This one bites frequently.
>The defines are evaluated before the select processing, which means they're
>evaluated on the header and trailer too.
>
>You can either rewrite them to evaluate cleanly on the unselected records
>too, live with the conversion errors, or, as you say, do two passes.
>
>The select seems to contain some redundancy - checking that the first
>character is "&", and also that it isn't any of "$", "W", or "\" ??


This was a typo, the first char was supposed to be <> "&" as well.

Thanks again!







Mike
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