CLIST declaration is throwing me an error

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

I have code like
IF &ACCT = THEN +
SET &ACCT = &SUBSTR(1:18, )

but when i give a input as FHGFSFK---GHK--100
it is throwing me a error

IF FHGFSFK---GHK--100 = THEN
THIS STATEMENT HAS AN EXPRESSION WITH A CHARACTER DATA ITEM USED NUMERICALLY
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any idea about it????
can anybody help me out??????

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:43 pm

Hello,

Please post more of your code using copy/paste.

Is this

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

in the panel i am receiving the input as fhfgk----&ahgfskg and i am checking in the code that whether it is blank or not..... for that only it is showing me error.....i am unable to give input with any special characters like @ - & * what can i do for that ???? my input data is having some special characters ...

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:14 pm

&str(FHGFSFK---GHK--100 )

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

in the panel i am getting FHGFSFK---GHK--100 as input using a variable &acct

then in the program i m checking as
if &acct = then
say key is not ok
else
&file=&acct

while executing the code it is throwing me the error as
IF FHGFSFK---GHK--100 = THEN
THIS STATEMENT HAS AN EXPRESSION WITH A CHARACTER DATA ITEM USED NUMERICALLY

what can be done to get the input with hyphens and ambersons in the panel

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

can anybody reply to mine

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:08 pm

Hello,

Did you try what was suggested?

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

ya it is accepting if the hyphens are there but when & is used it is not accepting the data ex:if the input is like abcd&efgh--101 then it is stored as abcd--101.....