understanding how define affects field initialized from temporary

[Chris Sharman]

Lorry Litman wrote:
> If I change the item initial statement
> from 
>  item emp_no of empfile initial t_emp_no if entrymode
> to
>  item emp_no of empfile initial t_emp_no
> the record gets written to the table with the correct emp_no value.

'initial' implies entrymode, iirc, so the 'if entrymode' is redundant.

As far as the define goes, what's the initial/default value of 
emp_rpt_flag ?
Might

def d_rpt_flag char * 6 = "" if newrecord of empfile else ...

be better ?

Chris


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