Re: Howto use fields "by name"

Well, thanks again to all for the new answers.

Martin, thanks for the link to your code to CRTCSVDTA. I'm studying it
and will try the reverse way.

Douglas, you are right, reading all other suggestions I missed Charles
quote when I wrote that nobody had answered my original question.
Anyway, I had searched through the archives first, before posting the
original question and hadn't found any thing... (although he said: "This
has been discussed numerous times in the archives") Well I could not
find it.

Rich, thanks for your comments. I had thought of doing it that way, and
it's precisely for avoiding it that I asked if it could be done some
other way...

I think I have it quite more clear now. Thanks to all again.

Martin Rowe escribio':

>On Saturday 12 June 2004 18:22, afvaiv wrote:
>[snip]
>  
>
>>So, let me present again my original question:
>>
>>If, in a RPG pgm, I manage to have in a field (let's call it FieldName)
>>the name of a real field from an externally described file, and in
>>another field, call it "FieldValue", a value (either alfa or numeric),
>>is there a way to write something as:
>>Eval FieldName(??) = FieldValue
>>    
>>
>
>Antonio
>
>Have a look at the code behind CRTCSVDTA, one of my open source utilities. 
>That dynamically processes fields from a file by reading from a program 
>described file and extracting data from the record based on info from the 
>list fields API. It should be do-able to reverse the process and write to 
>a file using arrays to hold the field names and values. The RPGLE code 
>can be seen here:
>http://dbg400.homeip.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dbg400/QRPGLESRC/DBG201R4.rpgle?view=markup
>and the whole utility from http://www.dbg400.net/crtcsv.html
>
>Whether it's any quicker or not is debateable, but I think it is feasible.
>
>Regards, Martin
>  
>

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