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From: mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re^4: dBASE IV - is this for real?
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Date: 12 Jul 89 18:05:00 GMT
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mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:

>I have a question that maybe some dBase IV person can answer.  Let's say that
>I have the following chunk of dBase code:

>T="this is a test"
>IF T="this is not a test" THEN
>    @10,10 say "Inside the if"
>ENIF  && Notice the misspelling
>@11,10 SAY "Outside the if"
>RETURN

>Can anyone tell me what dBase IV does with this?  If it returns an error
>message, I would switch instantly.  

here's what IV does with the above six lines in a file called foo.prg:

. do foo.prg
Compiling line		2
IF T="this is not a test" THEN
Warning on line 3: Extra characters ignored at end of command
Compiling line		4
ENIF
Error on line 4:  *** Unrecognized command verb
Compiling line		6
RETURN
Error on line 7:  Missing ENDIF for previous IF command
&&
&&	it dies here and tries to read another line
&&	beyond the RETURN on line 6.
&&

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michael regoli
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