Why the chunk error when using quotes for field name?

vamp07 · Post by **vamp07** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:44 pm

Hi,

I just banged my head for a good 30 minutes because this line of code gives me a chunk error:

answer the number of lines in field "xyz"

While this one does not:

answer the number of lines in field xyz

I thought I was supposed to put field names in quotes? Now I am trying to recreate the error but neither form gives me an error. Is this just some quirkiness in the engine?

Thanks

Steve

Mark Smith · Post by **Mark Smith** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:05 am

The engine will quite often be tolerant about a lack of quotes, if it can make sense of it, but I never knew it to barf on a quoted object reference...

Glad it's working, now, though.

Still, the habit of quoting such references is a good one. The engine's benevolence can't always be relied upon...