String variable inside USEC

[barryk]

I am resurrecting a problem that I had sometime ago:

basic-converter.proboards.com/thread/637/usec-substitution-bug

...I had a string variable, let's say "thisfile$", but the "$" was objected to inside USEC.

Alexfish recommended to define it without the "$":

DECLARE thisfile TYPE char*
thisfile="/tmp/pup_event_ipc/popup_msg"

and "thisfile" can be used inside USEC.

However, I am using BaCon 3.7.1, and this isn't working.

DECLARE clientfile TYPE char*

clientfile=CONCAT$("/tmp/pup_event_ipc/",(*ent1).d_name)

...the second parameter doesn't matter. The point is, the CONCAT$() function doesn't work.
It compiles, but the expected string is not getting assigned to "clientfile".

I am obviously misunderstanding something here!

Is the problem because "clientfile" is only a pointer, without space assigned to hold the string?

[barryk]

Ha ha, vovchik, I am doing it again, solving my problem

This fixed it:

DECLARE clientfile TYPE char*
...
    clientfile_str$=CONCAT$("/tmp/pup_event_ipc/",(*ent1).d_name)
    clientfile=clientfile_str$
...
USEC
...
     clientdescr=open(clientfile, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND);

Don't know if that is the best way to do it, but it works.