[ic] @@MV_PAGE@@

Mike Heins interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Sun Feb 3 22:16:01 2002


Quoting Ron Phipps (rphipps@reliant-solutions.com):
> We used to use @@MV_PAGE@@ in our comments and in figuring out which
> page should come next after logging on, but in ic 4.8.3 I noticed this
> no longer worked for us (@@MV_PAGE@@ resulted in the string '@@MV_PAGE'
> not in the value it used to contain) and I had to replace it with
> @_MV_PAGE_@.  The docs say this about the notation:
> 
> 
> "If a variable is called with @_VARIABLE_@, and there is no catalog
> Variable with its name, the global Variable value will be inserted.
> 
> There are several standard variables which should not be used:
> 
> MV_PAGE
> 
> Name of the last page read in, as in the page called with mv_nextpage or
> mv_orderpage."
> 
> Did the use of @@MV_PAGE@@ go away and was replaced with the global
> variable or is there some other issue I am not seeing?

It hasn't changed. It will never, however, be interpolated inside
a variable. (It will if the variable is an [include ..], though).

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