Re: Dynamic field definition.

[Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/27/99 10:51:44 AM "eftimios pantzopoulos"  wrote:

>I want to be able to format a single 8 byte field into 2 fields 
>dynaically. Our application needs to be able to handle different 
>postcodes in the world. Eg in Australia we have a 4 digit postcode, in 
>the UK we want to be able to accept 4 byte and 3 bytes separated by a 

One (lazy!) solution is to simply let the user key the data in the format 
that you need it printed in, i.e. a Canadian user would type in "B6B 4B3" 
and a US user would type in "12211"

If you don't think that'll work, you can always substring out the parts you 
want, something like this:

eval column1=%sst(PostCode:Begin1:Len1)
eval column2=%sst(PostCode:Begin2:Len2)
eval PrintedPostCode=%trim(column1) + ' ' + %trim(column2)

>I know of a product called Dynamic Screen Manager, but can you use it's 
>function in a normal DDS stream?

I don't think you can mix and match DDS and dynamic screen manager.

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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