Kbase P155461: NUM-ENTRIES accepts a buffer-field BUFFER-VALUE of a non-CHARACTER type as a parameter
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/5/2009 |
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Status: Unverified
SYMPTOM(s):
NUM-ENTRIES accepts a buffer-field BUFFER-VALUE of a non-CHARACTER type as a parameter
In Progress 9, NUM-ENTRIES(<buffer-field handle>:BUFFER-VALUE) returns 1 when the value is not a CHARACTER.
In OpenEdge 10, NUM-ENTRIES(<buffer-field handle>:BUFFER-VALUE) returns 0 when the value is not a CHARACTER.
FACT(s) (Environment):
Passing an non-character parameter to NUM-ENTRIES should generate error 223 (** Incompatible data types in expression or assignment) at compile time.
All Supported Operating Systems
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge 10.x
CAUSE:
Bug# OE0193022
FIX:
None at this time. Unexpected behavior can be avoided by applying the STRING function to non-CHARACTER values before passing them to NUM-ENTRIES() to convert them to CHARACTER.