RE: Substring DDS -- RPG400-L

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of dbryant@banpharm.com
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:16 PM
To: RPG400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Substring DDS




I need to create a logical file and substring one of the fields and use the
substringed portion as a key.  Possible?  If so, any examples?

Thanking you in advance!


yes it is possible

here is a code snippit of how, the witem field is really a 7 digit field


 A            ITEM6          6A  I      SST(WITEM 1 6)  
 A          K WCUST#                                    
 A          K ITEM6                                     


HTH

Mark A. Manske
[mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
Sr. Project Lead
Minter-Weisman


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