M type variable

As mentioned before, single and multi-valued definitions are very similar. Because of this, the prompt type codes are the same for both. Where the user is inputting a value on to the main update file this is a 'S' type. Where they are displaying a variable the user 'V' and so on.

However, there is one situation where no code exists to perform a required function in a window. That function is to display data off a multi-valued variable that is not part of the main update file and to display each multi-value on the associated line of the window.

For instance, the user has built up a list of values in the multi-valued variable 'DATA.VALUES'. They want to display these values in a window. On the first line of the window, the first value of 'DATA.VALUES' is displayed. On the second line, the second value is displayed and so on.

Note that this is very similar to the 'V' type variables except that a 'V' type code cannot be used as it does not incorporated the multi-valued indexing logic, it will simply display the whole variable and not parts of the variable.

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