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Re: Copying a data structure (source) over another (target) but target has missing fields

Create the new data structure targetDS and list all 114 fields, using
the field names from the original data. The trick here though is to put
the fields in the order that matches the target's file.

Then, eval target = targetDS should work just fine.





On 4/15/2010 12:02 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:
Hello all!

This is my challenge: I have a data structure (let's call it "source")
filled with data that I want to copy over another data structure (let's
call it "target"). Both data structures have the same number of fields
(114) and all these fields have the same field attributes on each data
structure (ie. item number: 15 char, standard cost: 19.8 packed, etc...)
but the issue I see is the fact that they have different field names and
they are in different order in the respective data structures.

I want to eventually do something simple like:
EVAL TARGET = SOURCE

Can this be possible?

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