RE: Field contents by reference?

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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.

This idea may have merit:  Read a record from XXXFIELDS and build a dynamic
SQL statement to fetch the actual field from the actual file like so:

d SqlStm          s            512a 
d FldData         s            512a 

c/exec sql                                                          
c+ Declare FldTest cursor for DynFldTest                            
c/end-exec                                                          
                                                                    
c                   eval      SqlStm = 'Select ' + %trim(FldName) + 
c                                      ' from myRealFile'               
                                                                    
c/exec sql                                                          
c+ Prepare DynFldTest from :SqlStm                                  
c/end-exec                                                          
                                                                    
c/exec sql                                                          
c+ Open FldTest using :SqlStm                                       
c/end-exec                                                          
                                                                    
c/exec sql                                                          
c+ Fetch next from FldTest into :FldData                            
c/end-exec                                                          

If you have a burning desire to make this more generic, you'll have to
interrogate SYSCOLUMNS and do your FETCH ... INTO into a matching variable.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
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