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&MESSAGE Preprocessor Directive

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Displays a message at compile time in the Compiler Messages dialog box.

SYNTAX

&MESSAGE text-string 

text-string

A string of characters, preprocessor name references, named include file arguments, or any combination of these that results in a character string to display. The text-string argument does not need to be quoted.

EXAMPLES

This is a possible compile-time message directive.

&MESSAGE Compiling the {&FILE-NAME} file.
              .
              .
              . 

If this fragment appears in a procedure file, cmessage.p, compiling this file with the COMPILE statement causes the following message to be included with the compiler messages.

Compiling the cmessage.p file. 

SEE ALSO

{ } Preprocessor Name Reference


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