When I try to use Write_Column("Filename",@ID,"Columname",variable,2) in a Symbolic column I get the message "WRITE_COLUMN" has not been dimensioned…..

Why am I getting this?

P.S. I am running a test scenario between Arev3.12 and Openinsight.

All help is greatly appreciated.

Dale

Dale,

I may be way off with this, but I don't think that you can write data to a calculated column. The data held in a caluculated column is produced dynamically from the 'static' data columns.

If this is something that you totally need to have written to your data table then I would suggest writing the produced calculated column data to a 'hidden' static data column. You may want to take a look at the CALCULATE function as well.

-Stephen

Stupid question, but did you declare it as a subroutine?

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I appreciate the above comments. Our application here has many symbolic columns that calculate data from various fields(columns)and then post the data to various files(tables)using writev in AREV. Since WRITEV is not available in OI, I thought that Write_Column was the replacement command.

Usually the last several lines would look like this in AREV 2.12

zz=(result of an equation)

WRITEV ZZ ON FILENAME,@ID,FIELDNUMBER

@ANS=ZZ

We have zillions of symbolic columns that use this format so you can see how important this is if and when we upgrade to OI. We are currently at AREV 3.12

Dale

Well, for what it's worth, here is an approach that came to me and it works. If there is another solution I would be interested in knowing about it.

ZZ=(RESULT OF AN EQUATION)

OPEN 'FILENAME' TO FILENAME ELSE NULL

READ STUFF FROM FILENAME,@ID ELSE STUFF='

STUFF=ZZ

WRITE STUFF TO FILENAME,@ID ELSE NULL

@ANS=ZZ

Dale

Dale,

AFAIK WriteV does exist in OI, at least it's documented in the PRG.

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SRP Computer Solutions

Ok, Thanks!!! I forgot about the else statement

Dale

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