Using "assign substring" in Webspeed

[Jim Ford]

Why does the following code stop the compile of my Webspeed .w program?

define var field-name as char format "x(20)" no-undo.

assign substring(field-name,1,1) = "Y".

Is the substring assign an illegal statement in Webspeed?

Jim

 

[Casper]

There seems nothing wrong with these statements, so I suspect you have somewhere else a problem.
Where is this code resided? In a cgi-wrapper or in a .html file? Or....

WebSpeed SpeedScript is the same as Progress ABL (or 4GL depending on version and nostalgy). So any code which compiles in a normal procedure will compile in your webspeed programs as well. Same compiler, same language.

Casper.