On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:27:31 -0400, "cadman"
<REM### [at] povraycouk> wrote:
> The docs state that when using a #read directive into an already #declare'd
> variable, POV will perform type checking.  I.e. I read that to mean that the
> following shouldn't work:
> -----------------------------------------------
> #declare MyString="Hi mom!"
> #fopen f "MyFile.txt" read
> #read (f,MyString)
> -----------------------------------------------
> if Myfile.txt contains the text "<1,1,1>" (with no quotes)
> But it does.  Is this a bug, or something I'm doing wrong?

Can't verify this currently but perhaps this is connected with type checking
when array entry is readed since you can't have different types in one array ?

ABX

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