[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] UPDATE variable and OUTPUT TO filepath

[sander]

I'm trying to ask a user to insert a filepath and then output the result to that filepath:

DEFINE VARIABLE outputPath AS CHARACTER FORMAT "x(50)".

UPDATE outputPath.
OUTPUT TO outputPath.


This doesn't seem to be working. But when I do for example:

OUTPUT TO "C:\temp\test.txt".


It seems to work.

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