RE: Techniques for variable field types in a subfile

Mark Drazic wrote:

>We currently have a requirement to 
>display/edit variable field types in a
>subfile list, for example:  
>
>Description             Value
>Payment Amount          $99,999.99 <------- Numeric field
>Payment Date            01/01/2000 <------- Date Field
>Payment Status              ACTIVE <------- Text Field

The "display" part is pretty easy: format the subfile as a single text field
and manually position your "fields" via substring/array overlay, etc. using
%editc/w or the edit APIs as required for numerics.

Parsing out the changed values is a bit more difficult.  You'll need a way
to ID the field - in this case your first "column" may do the trick.  You
can use the C function atoi() to pull out the numerics, but you'll have to
work the date and character fields yourself.

The main reason I posted this is to let you know that this is a very
interesting problem and I'd love to follow the decisions you make as you
solve this.  Hopefully the list can help out - this sounds like a classic
"more eyes make better code" problem.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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