What does the & symbol do?

[rpenridge]

Hi All,

What does the & symbol do and how do I use it? I can't find any documentation for it in the manuals and it's too hard a symbol to search for threads on.

Thanks
Rob

 

[Unregistered]

where ??


give an example please !!!

 

[rpenridge]

Hi, I'm talking about preprocessor directives, eg....

&scoped-define str pt_part
for each pt_mstr no-lock by {&str} :
display {&str} .

It is a dud posting though because I have managed to figure it out in the meantime (although I was too slow and wasn't in time to delete this posting).

There was documentation on this in the Progress Programming Handbook under 'Preprocessor' and not '&'.

Rob