RE: reading different files according to user input

You might also try the EXTFILE keyword on the file description spec.  The value 
can be a variable name so you can set it at run time depending on your 
parameter.

You can find information about it in the RPG reference manual at the info 
center.

Rick

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Yivi
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:50 AM
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Subject: reading different files according to user input


Hi there.

Little newbie question.

I have a program that produces a statistic report, and that needs to read
one file or another according to user's specification via a parameter.

But there are some lines of the program where I don't know how to manage to
go along with the choice.

E.g.:
dow not %EOF(ALFDEALHP);
(The files are either ALFDEALHP or ALFDEALHC)

In the simpler 'CHAINs' and 'READEs' I can use unelegants but effective IFs,
but doing it around the dow would end up with something ugly.

In some other language I'd be using a reference in the beggining of the
program for the appropriate file; and then referring to that reference
henceforth. But my newbieness in RPG is making itself, and I''ve been over
the infocenter for a while without good results.

Hope someone can help.

Thx.

I.-
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