Re: More than 99 indicators needed -- RPG400-L

Its going to be hairy however he does it.
Setting 100+ indicators on and off will be a nightmare. At least this way he can name the except condition, and just execute the except lines that need highlighting. He doesn't need to turn indicators on _or_ off.

I suppose that he could also build two 100+ element arrays made up of every field, and populate the array elements of the first array with every field's value, and then populate the second array only with the elements that are to be highlighted. Then, print the format with the elements of the first array and then eval the first array with the elements of the second array (including blank elements=not highlighted) and then print the format again. That ought to give the same results.

DeLong, Eric wrote:

True, IBM will spot overlaid characters in a print stream and will
render that as bold text, in both impact printers AND page printers. In
the latter case, HPT see the overstrike and then changes those
characters to bold. However, I'm not sure this make the problem at hand
any easier. You would have to build to two output DS's, one containing
all output data, and the other containing only overstrike characters....
With 100+ fields, seems things could get a little hairy.....

Eric

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:22 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: More than 99 indicators needed

Generally, in my experience, if you output the same data in the same
place on the same line twice, it acts like HIGHLIGHT. So, he could have
as many named EXCEPT lines as he likes, and do it all in the C-Specs,
using no indicators whatsoever?

DeLong, Eric wrote:

Yeah, except that he wants indicators to set HIGHLIGHT attribute....
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:08 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: More than 99 indicators needed

On 15-Oct-08, at 12:58 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The OP indicates that a single line of the report could have more than

100 fields, exceeding his ability to control output individually...

It seems to me that perhaps a better (or at least different) way of building the line might be preferable. Why not build it in (say) a DS

with overlapping fields where needed. Couldn't be any more confusing than any print line that needs more than 100 indicators!

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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