substituting variables

[freak]

<shields up>Using Progress 9.1d...


Is there a way to make the snippet display "hello"? I realize "value" does not work but wish it did.

DEF VAR v1 AS CHAR INIT "hello" NO-UNDO.
DEF VAR v2 AS CHAR INIT "v1" NO-UNDO.

DISPLAY VALUE(v2).

 

[Ishtyaqe]

v1 is object name, not a value . so it ll not work.

 

[freak]

Yes I'm aware it does not work and VALUE() will never work for this. It was just a wish. What I need is some way to make the example work. Is progress able to do this in some way?

 

[TomBascom]

Not with a variable. The main problem is that variables do not have handles so you cannot manipulate them dynamically. You could, however, use a temp-table field combined with dynamic query coding techniques.

 

[freak]

I will check out the dynamic query method. Thank you. I appreciate it!