Re: qualifying datanames

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

May I add one point to Buck's solution?  I learned this solution from Pete 
Hall; he used a three character prefix, where the third character was an 
underscore.  That improved readability considerably.  Using Buck's example, the 
names would become "ME_SSN"  and  "DE_SSN".  A small point, but it has proved 
helpful to me.


In <C3F56B66B44A0086852566EB00674ECF.0000000000000000@commsoft.net>, on 
12/31/98 
   at 01:52 PM, Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@commsoft.net> said:


>If I understand you rightly, on the "F" specs, 
>use the PREFIX keyword.  That'll add a prefix 
>in front of your database file field names
>like so:
>FMED              DISK    PREFIX(MED)
>FDEN              DISK    PREFIX(DEN)
>if both files have field SSN in them, your code
>will be able to refer to 
>MEDSSN and DENSSN instead of SSN.

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