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I'll preface this by saying I'm not a pointer expert...
One of my co-workers is writing a program in which he needs to access
several different fields within a record in a file depending on a soft-coded
criteria that is fed into the program, and he was hoping that he could
somehow use a pointer to accomplish this and thus have a more elegant
solution.
The file has six different date fields:
DATE1
DATE2
DATE3
DATE4
DATE5
DATE6
and depending of the value of the input field (I'll call it WHICHDATE), he
wants to be able to set a pointer to one of these six different date fields
in order to reference the value of the field, instead of using a SELECT
group with six different branches...
So, if WHICHDATE = 'DATE1', he wants the pointer to reference the address of
field DATE1, if WHICHDATE = 'DATE2', he wants the pointer to reference the
address of field DATE2, etc.
Does this even make sense? Is this possible?
As for me, I'd just use SELECT...
Regards,
sjl
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