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   As follow-up: I'm using (learning???) pointers in this IBM-dependent code
   because my database changes on a regular basis and IBM changes from time
   to time.  Once you understand pointers, the approach, IMHO, is far simpler
   and cleaner, and well as being essentially release-independent.
    
   -rg
    
   >Hi James,
   >
   > > Be that as it may, why are you complicating things by using pointers
   to
   > > get things into structures? If your program is always going to be
   > > triggering on the same file, you can probably get away with defining
   the
   > > data structures directly on the trigger buffer, and even if you can't
   you
   > > can certainly just define one big alphanumeric field on the trigger
   > > buffer, then use substrings on it.
   >
   >A few reasons why I recommend the pointer approach:
   >
    

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