Execute behaving differently in Pan X? (Answer: NO)

Panorama X
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This code in Panorama X works as is.

execute DieNumber=|Digital|;NumberAround=1;AcrossSpacing=.25;AroundSpacing=.25

I was always under the impression to do this you would have to replace the “;” with a cr() then execute.

Is this behavior expected?

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That code can’t possibly work. First of all, everything after the first semicolon is ignored, becase a semicolon is an alternate way to start comments. So your code really is:

execute DieNumber=|Digital|

(By the way, all I had to do to format the code above was indent it by four spaces).

Now when this runs, it is going to calculate the formula:

DieNumber=|Digital|

Which will probably be 0. So your original statement is really the same as.

execute "0"

That is a syntax error. Since you say that it does work, my guess is that you modified the code somehow before posting it here. Maybe you have something like this:

someVariable = "DieNumber=|Digital|;NumberAround=1;AcrossSpacing=.25;AroundSpacing=.25"
execute someVariable

That will run without an error, but it will only perform the first assignment. Anything after ; will be ignored. So yes, you need to change the ; to some kind of white space. It doesn’t have to be a carriage return, it could be a space.

I’m doing a lot of guessing here. Perhaps you could supply more information about what you are actually doing.

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You know, sometimes one gets so deep into the code that you lose your place and miss the obvious. I lost my place. :). Yes, Jim, as you already know, you are correct. I missed the section of code that replaces the “;” with cr(). That is why it was working. You have my permission to delete this topic.