topic Re: Display value of BY variable in ENTRYFOOTNOTE. in Graphics Programming

Display value of BY variable in ENTRYFOOTNOTE.

data_null__ — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:05:33 GMT

My BY variable is PAGE and I want to display Page 1, Page 2 etc. using and ENTRYFOOTNOTE.

I tried this which compiles

entryfootnote halign=right textattrs=(style=normal size=_footnotefontsize) eval(put("Page "||put(page,1.)||" of 2",$12.));

but generates the following NOTE and no output.

An expression used in a text statement resolves to a column. It must resolve to a constant. The expression will be ignored.

djrisks — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:19:16 GMT

Hi,

Simplifying it, you can you _byval_ to output the page number, you also need to add _byval_ to the dynamic statement too.

Of the top of my head, this may work:

entryfootnote halign=right textattrs=(style=normal size=_footnotefontsize) "Page " _byval_ " of 2";

RW9 — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:21:29 GMT

This bit:

eval(put("Page "||put(page,1.)||" of 2",$12.));

Does not look right to me, the put() function takes characters and makes numbers, but in the above it is putting text to text? Have you tried:

eval(cat("Page ",put(page,1.)," of 2");