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Re: Sorting a program described file

Booth--

I don't think I read all of the posts on this thread, but I think someone mentioned the LF over the PF... but using substring definitions in the LF. That will let you divvy up the single field in the record into multiple fields.

I think the question you have (and I have right now) is if the substring lets you declare the field with type Packed.

If not-- you might be better off with a data structure in the program.

Sorry, but I don't have a manual handy to check the substring specs.

--Paul E Musselman
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At 5:43 PM -0600 12/24/08, Booth Martin wrote:
I follow all of that, Paul. The piece I am missing is that I want to
have a logical file, and use that logical as an externally defined file
in my RPG program. I am not wanting to sort on the 4-column, packed,
7/2 field, but I do want to get the right value for the field. How does
the RPG program know that the field is a packed numeric and not a 4-char
field? Where do I define that?

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