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  3. July 2002

Re: IFS in RPG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Dow" <maillist@dowsoftware.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: IFS in RPG


> Hi Joel,
>
> Why would I lose the ability to use string variables for file names?  How
> about
>
>     fXYZ    ipe  i                 disk  usropn path(fldname)
>
> then
>
>     c            eval    fldname='/home/abc.txt'
>     c            open    XYZ
>
============================
Here you go:
c***        (extended-C-spec)
c             eval        fldname = '/home/abc.txt'
c             opens     fldname:disk:extds(XYZDS)
(Who needs an F-spec?)
=============================



> Now imagine you want to read a .csv file with lots of numbers in them,
e.g.
>
>     123,456.78,23,104568.20-,134.4343,134234,08797,0789.99
>


Bean counters and other such like these a lot. With OS400 data.

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