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Subject: Retrieve Number of fields in a File
From: Vinay Gavankar <vinaygav@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:25:58 -0400
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Hi,

I was looking for way to retrieve number of fields in a file. I wrote a CL
program to do a DSPFFD to a file, and then read the first record in that
file to get number of fields.

I also saw that there is an API to retrieve File Description, which has the
number of fields "somewhere".

Since I am not too familiar with writing API's I was wondering if someone
has some code using that API, or whether the CL I have would be good enough?

TIA
Vinay

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