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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: confusing string error
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:56:00 -0700
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On 02/15/2014 06:15 AM, agent@drrob1.com wrote:
>>
> ok.  Next time I will post the .ads also.  As I said, I didn't want to
> bomb the group.  I guess posting code is not bombing it.

Generally we expect some effort on the poster's part to reduce the code 
demonstrating the error as much as possible. In this case, a compilable 
main-program procedure containing the offending subprogram and calling it with a 
string that causes the error would have been helpful.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to
eat Robin's minstrels, and there was much rejoicing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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