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Babloo
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RW9
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Diamond | Level 26

And what information are you missing?

This is the error:

ERROR: Character format $ in PUT function requires a character argument.

 

This is one of the places it refers to:

put(20180630,$10.)

20180630 is a number, therefore you need to put() it into a numeric format:

put(20180630,8.) as KNDTOPD length = 10,

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

And what information are you missing?

This is the error:

ERROR: Character format $ in PUT function requires a character argument.

 

This is one of the places it refers to:

put(20180630,$10.)

20180630 is a number, therefore you need to put() it into a numeric format:

put(20180630,8.) as KNDTOPD length = 10,

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