Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress 4GL Reference

LITERAL-QUESTION attribute

Lets you specify how Progress interprets a quoted character value during assignment into the BUFFER-VALUE attribute for a character BUFFER-FIELD object. That is, whether Progress treats the quoted character value as a literal or non-literal character value.

Return type: LOGICAL

Access: Readable/Writeable

Applies to: Buffer-field object handle

When TRUE, Progress treats a quoted character value as a literal character value. That is, it does not remove enclosing quotes, trailing blanks, or formatting insertion characters.

When FALSE, the default value, Progress treats a quoted character value as a non-literal character value. That is, it removes enclosing quotes, trailing blanks, and formatting insertion characters. For example:

Progress treats "abc   " as abc.
Progress treats a quoted question mark character ("?") as the Unknown value (?).

You can use the Literal Question (-literalquestion) startup parameter to change the default value of the LITERAL-QUESTION attribute to TRUE (which would otherwise be FALSE). For more information about this startup parameter, see OpenEdge Deployment: Startup Command and Parameter Reference .

See also

BUFFER-VALUE attribute