Is there a table or cursor with cMainKey defined as CHR(25)?

Looks like it to me, in which case you should put:

parameters m.cMainkey

(note the "m.") in your PARAMETERS statement.

good luck


>Can somebody help me I am really confused!!!!
>
>We are currently running a vendors software which you can invoke your own programs from. When I invoke my own program I pass a field as a parameter. I then use this parameter to run another program from which I can then run various options.
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>In the vendors software the following runs my program:
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>IF STYLESUM=alltrim('Export Costing')
>	exportcost(workstyle.mainkey)
>ENDIF
>

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>The value of workstyle.mainkey = "T59*AU04*NEIL6803T*TECHNICAL"
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>My program exportcost then accepts the parameter for mainkey and then invokes a routine to run an external application
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>LPARAMETERS cMainkey
>! /N U:\questpdm\costings.exe &cMainkey
>

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>The value of mainkey = "T59*AU04*NEIL6803T*TECHNICAL"
>
>In the main form of my costings.exe program at the start I then accept the parameter i.e.
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>parameters cMainkey
>

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>The problem I have is that the value of mainkey is "T59*AU04*NEIL6803T*TECHN"
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>Has anybody experienced the same kind of problem. Its chopping some characters off my mainkey when passing parameters. I am really confused!!!
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Many Thanks