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Different problem - he wants to work with the field NAME, not the VALUE. Nothing in RPG that I know of lets you turn the name of a field into a value - it would be really nasty to do that, I think, using APIs or whatever.

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From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you do something like this?
C eval wIndex = %dec(%subst(Field: 5: 2))

or have I misunderstood the problem?

Mark Walter wrote:
Not directly, but you could load them into a DSArray and spin through with an
index, or use SQL.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Adam West
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:42 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Using the field-name itself

HI 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 tbe field and then know that I
need to find say RATE07 since we are in July.

TIA,
Adam



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