OpenPlain can't use variable

Panorama X Beta 10.2
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While it seems that every other Open… statement works with a variable, OpenPlain does not. It won’t compile. The workaround is to use OpenSecret but requires extra steps to get to the desired point.

This works:

Let lvFile = "Contacts"
openfile lvFile

This does not and gets a compiler error: “Unknown statement: lvFile”

Let lvFile = "Contacts"
openplain lvFile
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How about:

Let lvFile = "Contacts"
execute "openplain "+lvFile
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But look at all of those extra bytes… :grin:

Yes, that’s another workaround besides open secret.

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Inflation!

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Ahh, but as it turns out, none of the above are correct. OpenPlain requires no parameters. So the error is in trying to identify the file to be opened.

Openplain is a standalone statement that opens an open file dialog for me to choose the file that I want to open plainly. It even says so in the Help as long as one thinks while reading the Description.

Maybe I was reading while chewing gum.

So OpenSecret is the only way to get there.