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Reputation: 305

Name of file during compile time in Progress 4gl

I want to make a compile time test of a file. The set-up is as follow.

1. We have procedure files proc1.p, proc2.p, ... proc1000.p.
2. All procedure files proc1.p, proc2.p, ... proc1000.p have a common include file incl.i

I would like to have pre-process variable in incl.i that carries the name of the parent procedure in order to invoke different behaviour during compile time.

What I tried

/* incl.i */ &SCOPED-DEFINE procName {&FILE-NAME}

this does not work {&FILE-NAME} evaluates to the name of the include file.

Now, THIS-PROCEDURE:FILE-NAME holds the name of the procedure file, but it is not known at compile time.

Any ideas? I do not want to add a new input parameter to the include - thus updating proc1.p...proc1000.p.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1135

Answers (1)

Tom Bascom
Tom Bascom

Reputation: 14020

Pre-processors are the road to hell... but if you insist you could create an &GLOBAL-DEFINE in the parent procedure. Something like this:

/* parent.p
 */

&GLOBAL-DEFINE parentName {&FILE-NAME}

{include.i}


/* include.i
 */

display "{&parentName}".

Upvotes: 3

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