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

[Boaz Bezborodko]

On 2/14/2011 4:11 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 2/14/2011 3:27 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> [...]
>>> Can you show the one that will actually work with 1 and 2 (but not 3)?
>>> (And which won't give an error that "ImpData" isn't defined anywhere,
>>> rather than your "caltag" error?)
>>
>> Sorry, I copied to the bottom of the editor's screen.
>
> Why not just attach the file, and eliminate the transcription errors?
>
>> What I did to test it out was to comment out 'caltag(4) and then add, 
>> one at
>> a time, the lines with 'caltag(1)' 'caltag(2)' and 'caltag(3)'. I 
>> would not
>> get syntax errors when compiling 1 or 1 and 2. But as soon as I added 
>> 3 I
>> would get the error.
>>
>>
>> Here is the complete file:
> [...]
>
> Hint 1:
>
>     What would happen if, on line 23, you had this instead?
>
>         If:  zz ne "Dropship Vendor Notification Report"
>
> Hint 2:
>
>     Ybbx ng yvar guvegl guerr.
>

So because I didn't mention 'caltag(4)' on a THEN line Filepro considers 
it a syntax error?

I put in a line with a comment :
' caltag(4).

Even though caltag(4) shouldn't be considered part of a program because 
it is commented out, this allows it to pass the compiler syntax check.  
That doesn't really make any sense.  A perfectly allowable syntax--a 
part of a file array created by IMPORT--is considered invalid.  But word 
that should not be considered part of the program is considered a valid 
syntax.  Mention the invalid syntax in a commented part of the program 
on a THEN line and everything then works.

I further changed the commented part to 'caltag(8) and everything less 
than 9 is considered acceptable so Filepro looks for the largest 
instance of the IMPORT name on a THEN line to determine what is valid.  
Given that it is not uncommon to use an imported field only an IF line 
and that I have already run across this at least once before (I resolved 
it without knowing at the time what I did), shouldn't this important 
fact be listed in the manual for the IMPORT command?

Boaz