Kbase P45168: COMPILE PREPROCESS doesn't handle escape characters correctly
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/3/2010 |
|
Status: Verified
SYMPTOM(s):
COMPILE PREPROCESS doesn't handle escape characters correctly
Carriage return character stripped when compiling with the PREPROCESS option.
Run-time errors are received when generating the PREPROCESS listing.
Escape characters appear in preprocessed listing as '~' followed by special character.
~n becomes ~ + newline.
~t becomes ~ + tab.
FACT(s) (Environment):
Performing COMPILE <procedure> PREPROCESS <listing>.
Source procedure contains escape characters (~n, ~t etc.).
All Supported Operating Systems
Progress/OpenEdge Product Family
OpenEdge Category: Language (4GL/ABL)
CAUSE:
Bug# OE00095553
FIX:
To work around this behavior, substitute the equivalent ASCII character using the CHR function. For example, for ~n substitute CHR(10).