Re: Why would this statement fail? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Why would this statement fail?
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:26:59 -0800
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James Lampert wrote:

Interesting. Works under V5, but not under V4.

I just determined that it works fine under V4 if there's a question mark anywhere in the string, even all the way out to the end.

This just gets weirder.

More weirdness: the %SCAN() call works fine without the "-1", and "eval pos = 0 - 1" works fine by itself. They just don't work together.

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