lookup to multi field index

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Learn something every day - had no idea about the & to concatenate
there.....I've only ever used < or {
Never too old to learn
thanks Ken

S

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 7:01 PM Ken Cole <ken.m.cole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Make sur the 2 variables are defined to match the field size and edit and
> concatenate together with an &, no space needed
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 8:54 am, scooter6--- via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> Having a big of a problem that I haven't encountered before
>>
>> I have output processing that has 2 variables that I set and then attempt
>> to lookup to a file on an index that has 2 fields
>>
>> za='value1';zb='value2';zc=za<ab
>>
>> lookup cli file k=zc  i=T -nx
>>
>> I thought if you had a space between your values it would interpret that
>> as
>> the 2 fields you're using in your lookup?
>> The two fields in file are (25,*) and (6,*) respectively - the lookup I'm
>> doing, the first value za is only 13 characters long (this will vary
>> depending on which lookup I'm using, so I made the field length of 25
>> anticipating I won't have any values greater than 25) and the 2nd field
>> (zb) will always be length of 6
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Scott
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