Re: CLEAR Question for Input Files

My question is:  why are you getting decimal data errors?   The only
reason I can think of that you'd get decimal data errors is that
you've got some numeric fields that are stored in a data structure.

That would also explain why you can't use an external data structure
without renaming it (because, otherwise that suggestion would have worked)

So, given that...   why don't you just CLEAR the data structure that
you're loading the fields into?

Or, perhaps a better question, why not change the way the data structure
is initialized at start-up so that the numeric fields are initialized
to zeroes instead of blanks?

If that's not the case, then please explain where the decimal data
errors are coming from in the first place, since that's the root of the
problem, not the inability to clear a record format...


On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Michael Naughton wrote:
>
> My problem is that if the CHAIN fails (which it will, from time to time),
> I get decimal data errors on the screen fields. I thought I could solve
> this by using CLEAR on the data file format, but CLEAR doesn't work since
> the file is input only.
>