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Compiler does not catch this syntax error, bug?
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11/05/2004 13:10:40
David Frankenbach
Austin, Texas, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Re: Compiler does not catch this syntax error, bug?
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00901990
Message ID:
00902892
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26
Dawa,

>c = "copy file a.txt to c:\a.txt"
>&c && works
>evaluate(c) && you get syntax error

Evaluate() can not execute commands, it evaluates expressions.
lcInFile = "a.txt"
lcOutFile = "c:\a.txt"
copy (lcInFile) to (lcOutFile)
would be another case where name substitution should be used instead of & macros
df (was a 10 time MVP)

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