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====== Bugs and PCs - Xlate with Multipart Keys=====

^Published By^Date^Version^Knowledge Level^Keywords^
|Sprezzatura Ltd|01 JUN 1989|1.13+|EXPERT|SYMBOLIC, XLATE, MULTIPART, KEY|

Karl Reti of Manchester has pointed out an annoying bug in the displaying of
Symbolic fields between parts of a multipart key. This specifically seems to
affect XLATEs and is simply that if the item being XLATED to is not there,
regardless of whether an "X" is specified or not, the XLATE behaves as
though a "C" were specified and the ID shows up on the screen where the
XLATE should be. This also affects screens that are made up purely of
symbolics (i.e. a key and a screen of symbolics) as Nick Edwards of
Twickenham complained.

As both gentlemen have found out, the solution to this bug is simply to
append a space to your XLATE e.g.

     X=XLATE("VOC"'@ID,1,"X"):" "


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