Record number field size

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:39 AM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net; GCC Consulting
> Cc: Filepro 2 List
> Subject: Re: Record number field size
> 
> Quoting GCC Consulting <gcc at optonline.net>:
> 
> > I am sure that many of us use a dummy field or long 
> variable to hold 
> > record numbers for lookups.
> >
> > rn(8,.0)
> >
> > Now if there is a possibility of the record number field size being 
> > increased by even 1 value, short of defining an edit "recno", would 
> > the following work?
> >
> > Rn(len(@rn),edit(@rn))
> >
> > In other words can system field edit values be used in 
> casting dummy 
> > or long variables?
> 
> What happened when you tried it?
> 
I tried this and it works perfectly.

Looks like I will ruse this method for declaring record # dummy fields from now
on and change declartations if I go back to old code where a record # field is
used.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting