>Greetings All,
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>I had a student recently ask me if you can store code in a memo field so it can be accessed, compiled, and executed at runtime. I think this is possible with the COMPILE command, yes? I just haven't had a chance to research it yet...
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>So, is it fairly striaght forward? Any traps I should tell him to watch out for?
>
>Thanks!

Yep. Do it all the time - without the COMPILE command

** e.g.,code in field mcode
lcFile = FORCEEXT(FORCEPATH(SYS(2015),SYS(2023)),"PRG")
COPY MEMO mcode TO (lcFile)
* make sure it got out there...
IF FILE(lcFile)
DO (lcFile)
ENDIF
** clean up
ERASE (FORCEEXT(lcFile,"*"))