Re: RCVF Question (since I never used it before)

What is your situation specifically?


I do not know if you build the record or if you receive it from somewhere else,
but if your are handling a database file with a well defined DDS, you can refer
to the fields on the file as you normally do.  You need to use a DCLF command at
the top of the program (also the RCVF to read the file of course) and that is
all.


If that is not the case, you may need some kind of field delimiters that will
help you determine the beginning and end of a field.  I have a program like that
uses "*" as delimiters but obviously it could be anything (commas spaces, etc.)
If you are building this record, identify it as this.  If you are receiving this
from some external entity, see if they can place some field delimiters.


I hope this help you.


Peter Vidal





                                                                                
                
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I am reading a file in cl with the RCVF, I read one record which is 132 bytes
long, I would like to substring this %SST, but I do not know how to declare a
var for the file record. I do know each position in the record that needs to be
substringed. Any help greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I have to use CL for
this instead of RPG.

TIA,
Tom
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