Re: Overlay Keyword

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Define the bigger one first.  Overlay the little ones.
 | |   D DataStruct      DS                                                      
 |                     | 
 | |   D   PartNumber                  10A                                       
 |                     | 
 | |   D     Family                     3A   OVERLAY(PartNumber)                 
 |                     | 
 | |   D     Sequence                   6A   OVERLAY(PartNumber:4)               
 |                     | 
 | |   D     Language                   1A   OVERLAY(PartNumber:10)              
 |                     | 
   




bacollins@twitchellcorp.com on 04/04/2000 10:00:30 AM
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Subject:        Overlay Keyword

I have a question using the "overlay" keyword.

If I have two field each 4 alpha i.e. MMDD and YEAR and I want to combine
them to look like YEARMMDD which is 8 alpha.How would I use the overlay
keyword to accomplish this. I know you can use a data structure or the cat
function to do this but I was trying to learn new stuff. TIA

Bruce Collins
Twitchell Corporation
bacollins@twitchellcorp.com

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