What's changed with OI's saved select lists (OpenInsight Specific) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

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At 08 JUL 1998 01:47:38AM Michael Moran wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

Something has changed with OI's saving of select lists between OI3.4 and OI3.6.1. It seems that OI saves a field containing the username and some other stuff on the first line of the SYSLISTS record. It never used to do this.

I often use code like this when I have very small key lists so that I can parse through a key list as a dynamic array :
OPEN "SYSLISTS" TO LISTS ELSE DEBUG
RLIST("SELECT DATAFILE",5,"","","")
IF @RECCOUNT0 THEN
  SAVE_SELECT("","KEYLIST","","")
  READ KEYS FROM LISTS,"PAYRUN.EFT.TYPES" ELSE DEBUG
END
The problem is that the actual keys now start at KEYS and KEYS contains the username and some other stuff. I realise this may not be the best or most efficient way of doing this, but it is useful and saves manipulating multiple cursors.

So why was this changed, or is it a bug ?

Regards,

Michael.

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