Re: Dual Format

[Billy Rowe <billyrowe@xxxxxxx>]

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> I wonder if it would work to have two externally described data
> structures, one for each record type.  Then have the physical file itself
> have one field only, which is long enough for the longer data structure.
> 
> At the moment before writing the record you could then Movel the data
> structure to the record's long field?  (Am I correct in saying MOVEL? Eval
> won't do a move left will it?)

Yes this will work and also you can write your data structure to the
file by
placing the name of the data structure in your write statement(look at
the write
op code).

I do this for clients that require multiple record types in files I send
to
them(i.e. Headers,details,trailers)

Billy

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