MAKELIST()

[DrD]

While working with the difficulty the MAKELIST() command had become for me, I tried many things. The code fragment I presented was just the last 'box' I found myself in.

You are right about needing a global for the dummy var for the MAKELIST() parameters, however that did not resolve my problem. On the command line I could manually enter the MAKELIST() command and it worked. Programmatically, it would cause an error.

Using a global, I could get the full program to work on the emulator, but it would NOT work on the physical device. I trimmed my full program to just a shortened fragment containing the MAKELIST() segment, wherein I used the length() command. It turned out that the length() command would not work on the physical device, programmatically OR on the command line, either.

In short, I did the "C-F-O" ON reset, and it fixed the problems. The program now runs in both environments as hoped. The state of the physical machine had become corrupted in some way.

Not my first encounter with this sort of issue ...