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  3. August 2001

RE: Externally-Described Field used as array name.

Hi Jim -

>Many times I have found myself having to save record data buffers
>into a temp buffer so I could check other records in a file.  It
>has always been a pain to code and prone to bugs if I forget a
>variable or two.  This way would be much easier, IMO.

How are you forgetting variables?

d fileds      e ds       extname(file)
d saveds      e ds       extname(file) prefix(sv_)

      eval   saveds = fileds

 ... chain to file for error checking

      eval   fileds = saveds

There are no individual variable names required.

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
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