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Language Reference
ENTRY Statement
Used on the left-hand side of an assignment to set the nth element to some value.
SYNTAX
element
An integer value that corresponds to the position of a character string in a list of values. If the value of element does not correspond to an entry in the list, Progress raises the ERROR condition. If the value of element is unknown (?), ENTRY returns an unknown value. If element is less than or equal to 0, or is larger than the number of elements in list, ENTRY returns an error.
list
A list of character strings. Separate entries with commas. If the value of list is unknown (?), ENTRY returns an unknown value.
character
A delimiter you define for the list. The default is a comma. This allows functions to operate on non-comma-separated lists. The delimiter must be only a single character. If you specify a string of more than one character, only the first character is used. If you specify a null string (
""
), a space character is used as the delimiter. If you use an alphabetic character, this delimiter is case sensitive.expression
A constant, field name, variable name, or expression that results in a character string whose value you want to store in the nth element in a list. Progress does not pad or truncate expression.
EXAMPLEThis procedure uses three ENTRY statements.
NOTE
The ENTRY statement is double-byte enabled. It can insert an entry that contains double-byte characters into a specified list and the character delimiter can be a double-byte character.
SEE ALSO
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