Re: Field contents by reference?

[Fran Denoncourt <BobNFran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,
The more I think about it, this may not be the solution. I took a quick 
look at your article. But, what I need to do is get the contents (actual 
data from XXX) from the field referenced by the fields file (XXXFIELDS). I 
know the field and file names and would like to use this information to 
retrieve the actual field contents and test that. If I should spend more 
time looking at your article let me know.
Thanks again,
Fran
At 01:48 PM 8/7/2001 +0100, you wrote
>On Tuesday 07 August 2001 12:06 pm, Fran Denoncourt wrote:
> > I have two files: The first is a data base file, XXX, with many date
> > fields. I would like to validate the contents of each specific date fields.
> > The second file is an output file, XXXFIELDS, from a query over a file
> > generated from DSPFFD. File XXXFIELDS has only four fields (file name,
> > library, field name, field text). The query selects specific date fields to
> > analyze. So, I would have XXX/Lib/Fld1/text; XXX/Lib/Fld2/text…..etc.
> > Since there will be several files to analyze - each with several date
> > fields - I wanted a more generic program with as little hardcoding as
> > possible. The intent was to read a record from XXX then get all of the date
> > field names from XXXFIELDS retrieving and analyzing the contents of each
> > date field before going on to the next XXX record.
> > Is there a way to get the contents of the date field using the field name
> > retrieved from XXXFIELDS. There must be a way to reference the data.
> > Pointers? %ADDR?
> > Thanks again for your help.
> > Fran Denoncourt
>
>Hi Fran
>
>Have a look at my CRTCSVDTA utility < http://www.dbg400.net/crtcsv.html >
>which does something similar. The program described input file is overridden
>to your chosen file, and the List Fields API is used to get details of the
>field offsets, data type, etc. The input record is substringed into the
>individual field values according to data type. It should give you a few
>pointers (bad pun intended ;-) on how you can get similar generic file
>handling for your requirements.
>
>Regards, Martin
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