RE: WARNING:Latest 4GL+Online buggy
Posted in 1999
ackerbau@us.ibm.com — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Rekaish quoting Obnoxio: >>It could be a problem with the length of the string. If you know that the >>string will never be longer than 20 chars so you define it as a CHAR(20), >>and suddenly it's 23 chars and this happens before the prepare completes, >>you might get a syntax error. But I'm just guessing. :-) >Nahh, You are guessing. >I've not had any problems with this so far. >Mind you I always define my char variables as CHAR(20000). ;-> Are the words "pot", "kettle" and "black" at all significant to you? ;) -mka Michael Ackerbauer SP System Test