Re: Field contents by reference?

[Fran Denoncourt <BobNFran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tips.....I'll look into both suggestions tonight.
Fran
At 10:16 AM 8/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>Are these fields always in the same format?   For example, maybe your
>dates are always stored as '8S 0' fields in '*ISO' format?  If so,
>you could program describe one field that would be the entire record,
>then use a "based" variable to point to the appropriate spot in
>that record...
>
>If they're not always in the same format, you could write routines
>to translate them.
>
>News/400 did an article in May 2000 which was intended to allow you to
>read & write a database in CL.  But, what they actually did was have it
>call an RPG program, passing the file name, field name, etc, and they
>read and returned the contents of the field...   you might check that
>out....
>
>
>On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Fran Denoncourt wrote:
>
> > I have two files: The first is a data base file, XXX, with many date
> > fields. I would like to validate the contents of each specific date 
> fields.
> > The second file is an output file, XXXFIELDS, from a query over a file
> > generated from DSPFFD. File XXXFIELDS has only four fields (file name,
> > library, field name, field text). The query selects specific date 
> fields to
> > analyze. So, I would have XXX/Lib/Fld1/text; XXX/Lib/Fld2/text…..etc.
> > Since there will be several files to analyze - each with several date
> > fields - I wanted a more generic program with as little hardcoding as
> > possible. The intent was to read a record from XXX then get all of the 
> date
> > field names from XXXFIELDS retrieving and analyzing the contents of each
> > date field before going on to the next XXX record.
> > Is there a way to get the contents of the date field using the field name
> > retrieved from XXXFIELDS. There must be a way to reference the data.
> > Pointers? %ADDR?
> > Thanks again for your help.
> > Fran Denoncourt
> >
>
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