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  3. June 2004

Howto use fields "by name"

Folks,
I don't know if the following can be done or not.
I'm reading a file, whose records contain SQL sentences like
"INSERT INTO xxxxx (fielda, fieldh, fieldx) VALUES ('aaaaa',18,'xyz');

I want to be able to
- parse that sentence,
- read the field names in a loop, into a variable that will contain one field name at a time
- read the new values in same loop, into a variable that will contain one value at a time

now comes the question:

I would have to do a lot of "case" sentences, or nested "if's" so that in the end I could either MOVE or EVAL each field to its new value. The question is: since I will have the field name as the value contained in a variable called "FieldName",
can I do some kind of Eval of the real field to the desired value, addressing the field by the name contained in FieldName?

I hope I made it clear enough.

Any examples or hints?
TIA

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Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx



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