Re: Field contents by reference?

On Tuesday 07 August 2001 2:54 pm, Fran Denoncourt wrote:
> 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

CRTCSVDTA does just this. There is a companion tool called EDTFLDMAP that 
lets you specify formatting rules for a particular file. This rules file 
(like your XXXFIELDS) is read in conjunction with the input file (like your 
XXX data) and for each field (generally holding date values) in the rules 
file I extract the matching value from the current record in input data file. 
Once I've processed all the fields mentioned in the rules file I move on to 
the next record in the input file. I actually process all field from the 
input file, but only do special formatting for those mentioned in the rules 
file.

Feel free to take this off list if you think it's getting too detailed for 
others to be interested, but at least it's on topic as my routines are all 
RPG(LE) ;-)  

Regards, Martin
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