RE: Field Names

I was trying to avoid the compare/selects, hoping I was just missing something in a simple statement or 2.

Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> 6/7/2019 9:57 AM >>>

Would something like this work:


Select;
When Field1 = 'FIELD2';
<do something with FIELD2>
When Field2 = 'FIELD3';
<do something with FIELD3>;
Other;
<do entirely something else >;
Endsl;


Duane

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Buddy McClean
Sent: Friday, June 7, 2019 10:46 AM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Field Names

Thanks, unfortunately I know zilch about SQL.

B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> 6/7/2019 9:36 AM >>>

Dynamic SQL would probably be the best way. Build the select statement using the name of the field to select data from.


Bradley V. Stone
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:33 AM Buddy McClean wrote:

Good Day,

Perhaps a silly question and an obvious answer, but I seem to have a
bit of fog about it.

What is the best way to translate a field that contains the name of
another field to be able to reference the second field. Other than do
a bunch of compares.

DCL-S Field1 char(8) INZ('FIELD2')

To be able to use FIELD2 in calculations. FIELD2 is an actual field in
a record, but I only have the literal name of the field.

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