An RPG question....

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Hi all,

Sorry to post this question here, but I believe a ton of you are coding ILE
RPG on your 400s. My question is, if I have a field in a file that has the
value of "acctno" and that is the name of a field in another file. Is it
possible to retrieve the value of acctno in the other file without something
stupid like:

        if field="acctno"
        eval fldvalue = acctno
        end if

I'd prefer something magical, like:
        eval fldvalue = %valueof(field)

but I've looked and unfortunately, %valueof() isn't something IBM has come
up with. It'd be cool though, huh?

Does anyone have any suggestions (short of "Don't post stupid questions
here")

Thanks,

Chris