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When copying an item with a "!" in the key, COPY breaks on the "!" as if it's a delimiter between multiple items.  Why?  Can this be overridden somehow?

TEST>COPY LIVE.PN.PREFIX 001!PHI

TO: (PN.PREFIX
001 is not in file LIVE.PN.PREFIX
!PHI is not in file LIVE.PN.PREFIX
0 records copied

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Kevin King
President
Precision Solutions, Inc.
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When copying an item with a "!" in the key, COPY breaks on the "!" as if it's a delimiter between multiple items.  Why?  Can this be overridden somehow?

TEST>COPY LIVE.PN.PREFIX 001!PHI

TO: (PN.PREFIX
001 is not in file LIVE.PN.PREFIX
!PHI is not in file LIVE.PN.PREFIX
0 records copied

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Kevin King
President
Precision Solutions, Inc.
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Kevin,

It appears to be something with the parsing, not sure if this goes back to how it was originally on early PICK.

I did a quick check in UniData, if you put it in quotes, it will work

:ECLTYPE P
:COPY BP "001!PHI"
TO: (VOC
1 records copied
:


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Michael Rajkowski
Rocket Software
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Kevin,

It appears to be something with the parsing, not sure if this goes back to how it was originally on early PICK.

I did a quick check in UniData, if you put it in quotes, it will work

:ECLTYPE P
:COPY BP "001!PHI"
TO: (VOC
1 records copied
:


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Michael Rajkowski
Rocket Software
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Thank you sir.  Now I just have to remember to quote that!  Old dog, new tricks, all that. :-)

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Kevin King
President
Precision Solutions, Inc.
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Thank you sir.  Now I just have to remember to quote that!  Old dog, new tricks, all that. :-)

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Kevin King
President
Precision Solutions, Inc.
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Think of it as the same as a space in something you are looking for...quotes always help clarify :)

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w c earhart
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