Cannot get `OMIT` working according to the documentation

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I am trying to figure out how OMIT works - better said I want to eventually create a template in which one can define a value - but I want to have a fallback value, or better said a default value for the equate if it’s not set - but I can’t get the following piece of code to work - it throws a Unknown Identifier unless I remove the OMIT (comment it out is enough`

OMIT('MyEquateValue', MyEquateValue <> 0)
MyEquateValue EQUATE('TEST')
MyEquate EQUATE(MyEquateValue)

The above was inside my .inc file which I include - but it does act the same inside the Global Data section - my program is currently Clarion 8 (Legacy)

The thing I don’t understand is that it should only be omitted when it has a value other than 0 - it’s 0 by default if not defined according to the documentation - but clearly it does have a value, otherwise it wouldn’t be omitted right?

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Got it fixed - apparently it works a little different than I thought- following works:

OMIT('*My Equate*', MyEquate <> 0)
MyEquate EQUATE('TEST')
! *My Equate*
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Read the help carefully. If your Expression is just an Equate Label without an operator (no = <> ) e.g.

   OMIT('xxx', _IncludeMyCode_)
   xxx

Of _IncludeMyCode_help says

If the Expression contains an EQUATE that has not yet been defined, then the referenced EQUATE is assumed to be zero (0). COMPILE and OMIT are opposites.

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It actually was the way I wrote it - I used the EQUATE as terminator and that didn’t work