Re: QUSLFLD API question

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Paul Jackson wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is an API that I can use to

> retrieve the "allocated length" of a variable length
> field in a database file?
> 

Have you tried the QDBRTVFD API?  The docs for it state that the length
it returns for a variable-length field would be the max length + 2.
That seems to be what you need -- but this API is somewhat more
complicated to use than QUSLFLD...


> It seems the QUSLFLD API only tells you that the field
> is variable length, it doesn't tell you anything else
> about the field.  It seems the DSPFFD command outfile
> facility tells you this, but I am trying to modify a
> program that is already using the API.

DSPFFD is an option too... albeit, it's a slower, less robust option...
but it'll almost certainly take less time to code...

If QUSLFLD doesn't give you want you want, you'll have to do something
else...  The fact that the programs already using QUSLFLD won't save you
much if it doesn't give you the information you need :)


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