Jim: Yes, I'm sure he was limited to 8 character variable names. But if you're putting up a choose box and asking them to pick a CustomerID, why would the guy call the varaible v#x4 rather than vCustID which is 8 characters!
I was wondering whether perhaps the guy used to program in another language, like a mainframe language, and it was common to use cryptic variables like that. Karen > You may have to determine how old the program code is. I seem to remember > that Way..Way.. back when (that is when the underlying rbase.exe and other > programs were coded in FORTRAN) you were limited to 8 character variable > names. > Hence, those obscure names. > > On the other hand, the programmer may have been employing a perverse form of > job security. > > In the past I handled the problem by running RSTYLE to get a list of > variable names. Determine a better value. Then add it to a file RSYLE.PRE > with > syntax > oldname newname > on separate lines for each name. > > Then you run rstyle again and it changes the names in your command files > etc. > > Jim Bentley
