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  3. June 2019

Re: Field Names

No easy way to do this, Buddy. RPG does not support "indirect addressing" for field names.

(It <would> be very handy and worthy of an RFE? Indirect addressing is possible on program calls, data areas, file names - but not field names. If we could code:
%(ADDR(Field1:*VAR)
it would be a great help!)

You've had a number of suggestions for alternative approaches. As Brad says, Dynamic SQL is probably your best bet with minimal learning curve.

HTH,
Brian.

On 07/06/2019 15:33, Buddy McClean wrote:
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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