Re: Dynamic field definition.

Could you simply edit each field into every variation, but only use the 
variation that was right for that record?



In <19990327045144.23414.qmail@hotmail.com>, on 03/27/99 
   at 03:51 PM, "eftimios pantzopoulos" <eftimios@hotmail.com> said:

>I want to be able to format a single 8 byte field into 2 fields 
>dynaically. Our application needs to be able to handle different 
>postcodes in the world. Eg in Australia we have a 4 digit postcode, in 
>the UK we want to be able to accept 4 byte and 3 bytes separated by a 
>blank in the same single 8 byte field, and do this 'on-the-fly'. I know 
>you can use start and end attribute characters in the output stream and 
>I thought perhaps we could use %edtwrd to place this character in the 
>stream. I don't know where to find the hex values for these characters. 
>They're not in the DDS manual. And I don't know how to place a hex value 
>into the %edtwrd.

>I know of a product called Dynamic Screen Manager, but can you use it's 
>function in a normal DDS stream?

>Sorry for being complicated. This could be of interest to others who are 
>developing Global software.

>Ta very much.
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