DECLARE (was Re: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 78, Issue 28)

[Boaz Bezborodko]

On 7/22/2010 3:09 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 7/22/2010 2:45 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> [...]
>> Have you used Debug to go through it line by line?  Filepro won't
>> recognize a declared variable until it hits the DECLARE command on a
>> line.  If so then the logical conclusion is that it must have hit this
>> variable before the DECLAREs you are looking at.  Debug will let you see
>> if it ever happens before getting to line 14.
>
> DECLARE generates no executable code, and need not be reached during 
> execution.
>
I distinctly remember doing some debugging last week and trying to get 
the value of a declared variable before debug hit the line where it was 
declared.  It gave me an error.  Once I stepped through past the Declare 
statement it gave me the value of the very same variable.

Boaz