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Re: Adding another subfield to an externally defined data structu re.

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hans,

What additional checking is done with LIKEREC that isn't already done with EXTNAME? Don't they both pull in the field names and attributes? I realize that once "you've let the cat out of the bag" by creating LIKEREC it's hard to take it away. But if they do the same checking, I'd just as soon use EXTNAME.

Can you change LIKEREC so that we may add additional fields to it? Or at least overlays?

Rob Berendt

Rob: As I suggested, one of the design features of LIKEREC is that you can't add subfields to it. Thus, it can be used as the result of record I/O with confidence that the data structure matches the record precisely. Do you want to be able to read into a data structure that does not match the record? What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Cheers! Hans



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