2+ Files with same field names (was RE: A probably stupid Question....)

You can use the prefix keyword (and the rename keyword to rename the record
format) on the F-Spec:
FOldFile   ip   e           k disk
FNewFile   if a e           k disk    prefix(#) rename(OldRec:NewRec)

If you only want to rename a couple fields (so you don't have to code a move
for each field) you can use this:

FOldFile   ip   e           k disk
FNewFile   if a e           k disk    rename(OldRec:NewRec)
INewRec
I              field1                      #field1
I              field2                      #field2

hth,

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of EThompson@uafc.com
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:16 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: A probably stupid Question....
>
>
>
> I am doing file conversions and have a problem.  I have two files with the
> same name, same record name and same field names.  However, some of the
> field definitions have changed, ie a 4b,0 field has become a 6A field.  I
> can obviously change file naes with OVRDBF commands and rename record
> names, but is there anyway that anyone knows of that will make this easier
> than having to internally define one of the files to rename the fields to
> map between the two files?  Some of the DDS files are short so internally
> defining them would not be a problem, but some of them have DDSs
> that are 8
> pages long, etc which for only having to change 2 or 3 fields seems like a
> lot of wasted work to me.
>
>
> Elonna
>
>
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