User command in @key processing

[Fairlight]

Your mistake is likely in not using CLOSE.

After your "aa=xxx" line, use this line:

::close xxx:

Should it -technically- close upon re-hitting the user command?  That's a
mattter one could debate either way.  I strongly suspect it is not closing,
however, leaving you with a dead file descriptor.

mark->

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:02:04PM -0400, James Flanagan via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Filepro 5.8.01.06D6
> Redhat Exnterprise 6.8
> 
> /bin/test_script
> echo 23
> 
> Input processing
> ::end:
> ::?:
> @keyx::?:
> ::aa(2,.0):
> ::user xxx = /bin/test_script
> ::aa=xxx:
> ::msgbox aa:
> ::end:
> 
> The first iteration of this code, when hitting the ?X? key works and the msgbox contains ?23?.  Every subsequent time, however, the msgbox is blank.   
> 
> I found the following in the manual, but I am not quite certain that this is the issue.  
> IMPORTANT: When reading from a user program, filePro Plus executes the program only once, not over and over. Therefore, make sure the user program itself loops until it reaches an end-of-file. 
> 
> Can input processing keep re-running a user command each time in @key processing, however many times the key is pressed for a given record.
> 
> Thank you very much, in advance.  
> 
> 
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