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Adam West wrote:
Is there a way to refer to a field, by its name, in RPG ILE? I
have a legacy file that contains rates by month. For each month,
there is a field, RATE01, RATE02, etc.

I would like to be able to check the name of the field and then know that I need to find say RATE07 since we are in July.

FWiW, an SQL VIEW can provide the logic to select the appropriate rate field for the current month. For example, the field /rate_today/ will replace the twelve RATE## fields from the file, with just the one desired rate field which will have the rate for the current month:

create view currentrate
( aa ,bb ,... ,rate_today ,... ,yy ,zz )
as
( select aa ,bb ,...
,case month(current date)
when 01 then rate01
when 02 then rate02
/* snip 03 to 11 */
when 12 then rate12
end as rate_today
,... ,yy ,zz
from legacy_file
)

Regards, Chuck

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