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need to use an unix environment variable in my DATABASE statement
I tried the DATABASE db_name syntax before and it failed, but now it works. I think it was because I did not close the initial database. As for forms, yeah, I knew the formonly way, but that means altering allot of code. I was hoping for an easier solution. If the closed database and the new...- cschmidt08822
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need to use an unix environment variable in my DATABASE statement
Can I use an environment variable, such as DBASE1, as my database name in a 4gl program? I can get the environment variable with fgl_getenv (let dbase = fgl_getenv("DBASE")), but cannot seem to use it. I tried to prepare it in a variable like db_stmt = "DATABASE ",dbase CLIPPED, but cannot...- cschmidt08822
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