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Oooh, thanks. Not the answer I was looking for, but that is the answer I wanted to hear :) Now I can make source UsrOpen and open my DSPFDCMNT file as IF and do an OVRDBF inside the RPG program... I like it! Regards, Jim Langston -----Original Message----- From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:16 PM To: rpg400-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: Variable length record in different files Jim Langston wrote: >Some of these files have record lengths >of 92, some 112, etc.. I'm 99% sure >that if I just specified the longest >record length of 112 and internally >described the file it wouldn't not work >the way I wanted to at all. It would work just the way you want it to. Declare a large record length, program describe the input and off you go. I would use the INFDS to get the *actual* record length and do a substring of it like so: h dftactgrp(*no) actgrp('QILE') h option(*srcstmt: *nodebugio) debug * dbgview(*list) fsource ip f 512 disk infds(sourceDS) dsourceDS ds d rcdLen 125 126I 0 d mbrName 129 138 d fileType 147 148I 0 isource aa 01 i 1 6 0srcSeq i 7 12 0srcDate i 13 512 srcData --buck ps - you can use OVRDBF file mbr(*ALL) to process all the members in a single source file in one pass. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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