Re: IF ERR on CHange

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the response - in my book and in my
experience in the past with the use of the IF
Error command associated with the SE (search)
function the command is > ...
 As you requested, here is one of the lines that
do not seem to work:
Quote
[F5]ch /%25/%/[execute]>Endquote
(NB: The brackets represent command code while the
lss and gtr represent the angle brackets.
Thanks
Dick Giering
Robert Holmgren wrote:
>
> ** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:25:35 -0600
>
> > I am trying to use the IF statement: [if
> > [err]][EI] appended to a change statement in a
> > program. It appears to be ignored. I have used
> > it in conjunction with a SEarch command and it
> > works OK. Does anyone know why it is ignored for
> > a CH command?
>
> Maybe because the operand is "ER", not "ERR"? >...
>
> If that's not the problem, then why not post a fragment of the non-functioning
> code? You described what your PM wants to do, but not where the error lies. Hard
> to guess. One thing that sounds wrong is, don't you _already_ have a conditional
> statement that throws up the NOT FOUND box? > applies only to the
> immediately preceding action, so if it follows the display of the NOT FOUND box,
> then it applies not to the results of the CHange command (already handled by the
> NOT FOUND box), but rather to the success or failure of displaying that box.
> Which is not to suggest that you can only perform one action after an error! You
> use nested conditionals, LaBels and GoLabels, etc. Better show us the code...
>
>
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> Robert Holmgren
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