Re: not equal comparison operators (<> and !=)

[Nathan Stratton Treadway <nathant@ONTKO.COM>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:20:03PM -0800, Ken Boettger wrote:
> I was trying it withn an IF statement before the FROM clause. It
> generated an error here on our platform.  Can someone confirm my
> observation here.  Are there cases where "!=" will be treated as a
> comment?  I feel guilty about my first post to this thread and want to
> go home with a clean conscious this weekend.
>


What version of SQR are you using, and what error message do you get?
Can you show us the text of your select paragraph?

There was a bug (#1303) in old versions of SQRs that caused SQR to be
confused if a comment line such as "!=================="
was found in an SQR program, because the "!=" was treated as a
comparison operator and not as a comment.  (This was fixed sometime in
SQR v4.)

Other than that bug, you should be able to use != or <> interchangeably,
and to have comments anywhere you like inside a begin-select....

                                                                Nathan
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