Consultor Eletrônico

Status: Verified

SYMPTOM(s):

Report Engine: Cannot open status file

Using aderb/_prntrb2 interface

String passed to RB-STATUS-PARAMETER contains Tilde ("~")

Report Engine error message reports pathname without tildes ("DOCUME~1" is reported as "DOCUME")

FACT(s) (Environment):

Progress 8.x
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge 10.x
Windows

CAUSE:

The cause of this issue is that Progress uses the tilde ("~") as an escape character.
When passing a string containing a tilde to the Report Engine, the processing of the string sees this and replaces the tilde and the character following it by whatever instruction they convert to (usually nothing).

FIX:

Replace the single tildes with double ones:
REPLACE(<source>,"~~","~~~~").

Double tilde is the escape sequence that forces a single tilde to be taken as a literal character, so it will be treated properly.