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From: tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: differences in concatenation v2.0,v2.3 ORACLE SQL*Forms
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.222907.10870@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 22:29:07 GMT
References: <11299@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: tensmekl@infonode.UUCP (Kermit Tensmeyer)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <11299@spool.cs.wisc.edu> beverly@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey (-Kung)) writes:
>The following statement works for me just hunky-dory in SQL*Forms 2.3:
>
>  #COPY 'molecule.'||&SYSTEM.CURRENT_FIELD GLOBAL.curr_atom;
>
>When I use the same line in v2.0, I get the msg:
>
>  IAXCPY: Not enough arguments.
>
>Adding or removing blanks between tokens doesn't seem to change the situation.
>I seem to remember reading somewhere that concatenation like that takes an
>extra step in version 2.0. Does anyone remember?

	Nope, can't doit that way try

	Select 'molecule.' || &System.Current_Field into :blk.buffer
	from dual;
	#copy :blk.buffer GLOBAL.curr_atom;

ah from the 'good ole day's Pre V3.0', ya know their discussing the
advance features of V4.0 including accessing 'Foreign Datatbases'




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