RE: Flat file, same field, different positions

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duane wrote:

>  I'm going to assume that each field is always the 
>same size, no matter where it sits in your flat file.

Yes, that's the case.

>...don't put your fields in a data structure
>at all.  Make each of them based.  Set up a structure of  
>pointers that each field is based on.  Set up an array 
>with groups of pointers, with the addresses of each layout 
>already set up.  For each record type, move in the
>correct set of pointers, and you're ready to go.


Very innovative, thanks Duane!  I was hoping to avoid all the explicit moves
(here, evals or possibly D spec INZ operations) but it looks like that's
unavoidable.
  --buck