Re: Copying a data structure (source) over another (target) but target has missing fields -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Copying a data structure (source) over another (target) but target has missing fields
From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:49:27 -0400
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Rory,

The OP said that "they have different field names and
they are in different order in the respective data structures."

Different names _AND_ different order, means neither EVAL nor
EVAL-CORR will work.

Charles

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, that will work fine - since you're copying the data structure, it
simply copies the DS as if it were one long string of data, without respect
to subfield names or types.

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