Re: Field Names in File Field -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Field Names in File Field
From: Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:40:59 -0400
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Bill Hopkins wrote:

I have a file that holds the field names from multiple files. I was wanting to use these field names to control what is going into a flat file. So that if one was delete from file or added to file it would control what fields went into flat file. ...

Bill: Generally, any time you want the value of a field to be a field name and do something with the value of that field, you need to use dynamic SQL. Static compiled languages, like RPG, generally don't support that type of thing.

Cheers! Hans

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