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

This I can live with.

Of course the day I do it some fool will put a prefix on the one and not
the other.  Probably thinking "Hey, he'll have two fields with the same
name.  Let's make them different."

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin



                    "Richard B Baird"
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Rob,

Don't create a different PF for the data structure.  just use the input
file as your external datastructure extname().

as for moving the data from the file fields to the data structure, there is
no need to do this.  because the field names from the file and the DS are
the same, there is really only one instance (and %addr) for each field and
they will automatically be populated with data from the read.

by listing the fields in a data structure, you insure, rather than assume,
thier physical addresses are contiguous.

Rick

Rob asked:
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?


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