Re: 4GL and $DBNAME

Bruce McDougald wrote: > > I want to write 4gl code that will grab the database name from an env. > variable at compile time. My problem is that the compiler is choking on > my variable definitions. Is there a way around this? > > EX: > main > call init() > call process() > end main > > function init() > define dbname > let dbname = fgl_getenv("DBNAME") > > database dbname > end function > > function process() > define l_var like table.column ## Compiler will choke here > ..... > end function You forgot to write the database definition at the top of your program. DATABASE compilerdatabase # this database will be used by the compiler MAIN define dbname char(80) let dbname = fgl_getenv( "DBNAME" ) DATABASE dbname # this database will ne used during runtime END MAIN Bye Stefan Weideneder