Re: how to?

Posted in 1998

Peter Lancashire — Tue, 19 May 1998 09:31:38 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

ori96@batelco.com.bh wrote: > > Hallo everybody, > I am writing a 4gl program in which I want to pass a value to a shell > script and I am not sure how to do it. From the 4gl code I try to use : > run "myscript" but I want to pass a value from the 4gl to myscript and then > read it from inside the script. > Regards > Osman Do this: define myargument char(60) define mystring char(80) let myargument = "foop" let mystring = "myscript ", myargument run mystring Note the space at the end of the string "myscript ". -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk --- My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/