I'm getting a syntax error with IMPORT...Why?

Boaz Bezborodko boaz at mirrotek.com
Mon Feb 14 11:19:26 PST 2011



On 2/14/2011 1:15 PM, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Boaz Bezborodko<boaz at mirrotek.com>
>> To: "Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com"<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>> Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 12:25:29 PM
>> Subject: I'm getting a syntax error with IMPORT...Why?
>>
>> I'm not sure why I am getting a syntax error, but here it is together
>> with  the code:
>>
>>
>> *** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***
>>
>> Line Number:  23
>>
>> caltag(4) ne "Dropship Vendor Notification Report"
>> ^
>> Process  contains a syntax error at position indicated.
>>
>>
>> 22 ------- - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - -
>> ◄ If: ◄
>> Then: GOSUB ImpCall ◄
>> 23 ------- - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - -
>> ◄ If: caltag(4) ne "Dropship Vendor Notification  Report" ◄
>> Then: BEEP ; SHOW "@This is not a proper Vendor Notification  Report...Pr>
>> 24 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> ◄ If:  ◄
>> Then: RETURN ◄
>> 25 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> ImpCall◄  If: ◄
>> Then: ◄
>> 26 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> ◄ If:  ◄
>> Then: IMPORT WORD caltag=("/USERS/OFFICE/Import-documents/ "{File_Name)  ◄
>> 27 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> ◄ If: ◄
>> Then:  Line_Num=Line_Num+"1" ◄
>> 28 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> ◄ If:  ◄
>> Then: RETURN ◄
>>
>> P.S. Belated Happy B-Day, Ken. Thanks for a program  that makes doing
>> data-processing  easy.
>> _______________________________________________
> Boaz, I don't see where you are checking for end-of-file i.e. when the import
> line runs, and there are no more records to process.  You should check for this
> with a "not caltag", and then take the appropriate action in your scenario for
> EOF.
>
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> Author of JHExport and JHImport
>
>
>
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I'm still in the process of writing the code.  This is occurring when 
Filepro is saving and compiling the code.

It's not the first time I'm doing IMPORT programming, but this is the 
first time I've come across an error for what looks to me to be a 
perfectly acceptable syntax.


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