RE: Field contents by reference?

[Fran Denoncourt <BobNFran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,
I worked with this a little last night and it might be the answer 
especially since I won't have to manually define anything. I don't want to 
have to care what the field name is after I plug it into the file 
XXXFIELDS. It just might do the trick. Thanks for your help.
Fran

At 11:38 AM 8/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >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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