Re: 4GL puzzling reactions

Posted in 1994

arthur.e.cooper — Mon, 4 Apr 1994 19:30:39 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jack, Thanks for your suggestion on situation one. > >> >> Second situation: Data is brought in from the other db >> (name, company, dept. address, telephone, etc) and fields >> are populated. In the process some field delimiters are blown >> away. Each argument is terminated with \\0 eliminating trailing >> extraneous characters before leaving the C function. >> Why is this happening? > >How is the data brought in? > Values are returned from the C function via retquote()'s. Back in 4gl they are assigned to members of a p_variable. Then the command display by name p_variable.* writes data in the fields. -- Art Cooper AT&T Bell Laboratories att!ihlpk!wd9aet 708-979-3049