Hi,

I'm wondering how to do the following

I have a prog that reads in a textfile with definitions (likea print
layout) In this layout I have e.g. SO<ENTRY.DT>the ENTRY.DATE part
will be read into a var called e.g. layout.field

Now I have a table in another file callede.g. file.layout where a
record for the SO file has a line line:
EQU ENTRY.DT TO 10
I can of course include this into the program.

Is there a way to read this file 'on the fly' and then use something
like:

read SO.ITEM form file.so, so.id else so.item=''

VAR.TO.DISPLAY = ITEM.SO<LAYOUT.FIELD>

I found that I get errors as LAYOUT.FIELD contains the text ENTRY.DT
and not a equate. Bsically I'm looking into a way to 'translate' the
var LAYOUT.FIELD into a attr number.

Sorry if it does not make complete sence.... It is nearly midnight and
hot here inthe Netherlands :-)

Thanks,

Frans

Frans,

What you need is a multi-valued list of the field (dict?) names you
want to insert - if your equates are being built by a program, just
have it create a "real string" as well, so

ENTRY.LIST = ""
EQU ENTRY.NAME TO 1
ENTRY.LIST<1,ENTRY.NAME> = "ENTRY.NAME"

EQU ENTRY.TITLE TO 2
ENTRY.LIST<1,ENTRY.TITLE> = "ENTRY.TITLE"
......
......
EQU ENTRY.DT TO 10
ENTRY.LIST<1,ENTRY.DT> = "ENTRY.DT"
.....
.....
read SO.ITEM form file.so, so.id else so.item=''
* VAR.TO.DISPLAY = ITEM.SO<LAYOUT.FIELD>
LOCATE(LAYOUT.FIELD,ENTRY.LIST,1;POS) THEN
VAR.TO.DISPLAY = ITEM.SO<POS>
END ELSE
GOTO ERROR.HANDLER
END


HTH

Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage - speaks YOUR language!

Hi Ross,

Thank you! Indeed this looks like the solution!

Frans



On 21 Jun 2005 16:15:44 -0700, "Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au>
wrote: