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Warnings=["]IgnoreWhich["]

This #option command allows you to have control of the handling of individual (or groups of) messages. You can choose to completely ignore particular messages or you can "promote" them into fatal errors.

Warnings can come from PPWIZARD, the #warning command or the Warning() function.

By default no warnings are ignored or "promoted". The "IgnoreWhich" parameter can be one of the following:

1. NULL
   No warnings will be ignored or "promoted".

2. ""
   An empty value means use the default value.

3. All Warnings Listed
   This should be one or more match specification strings each separated by ';' (use ':' under unix).

   Each match specification may begin one of the following characters:

   • '-'
     This means ignore any warnings that match the specification. As far as you are concerned there is no issue. This is the default action.

   • '+'
     This means promote any warnings that match the specification to a fatal error.

   • '!'
     This means treat any warnings that match the specification as we'd normally would. This can be used to handle messages that might overwise match a following specification.

   All messages match "*". It will also match if the text of a warning message contains the specification string (case insensitive check).

   If a message is dropped then you can still see the message in debug mode as well as the reason it normally gets dropped (that is the specification string it matched).

The warning message text which is searched includes the line number as well as the warning ID, basically the exact text that you would normally see so you could prevent warnings down to a particular line number if you wish (although this is not recommended).

Warning IDs and text are not documented so you need to wait for one to occur before deciding how to drop it.

If you wish to see warning messages but still want a zero return code you should check out the /WarningsRc switch.

Example

The following example lines show how you can treat any warning message that contains "tabs" (in any case) as a fatal error and completely ignore all other warnings that don't contain "FRED".

    #option Warnings="+tabs;!FRED;*"
    

PPWIZARD Manual

Thursday January 17 2002 at 6:27pm