Re: Re: Basing a field on an unreferenced field(s) doesn't work

Barbara,

I can understand fields in separate data structures not being contiguous.
I wouldn't expect them to be.  But, are you saying, that the compiler
doesn't treat all fields in a file as contiguous?

What is the best way to move every field of a file into a data structure?
Obviously you would want to create the data structure as an external data
structure with the format of the file.  But then how do you get the fields
moved?  Surely not one at a time?  Can you move a record format into the
data structure?  Or do you pitch your RPG I/O out and use SQL's select
into?

Rob Berendt
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