Field Names in Processing Trick

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> Hi
> 
> I must have missed this if it was on the list before, but 
> today I found I could assigned a variable, FldName, to hold 
> the Field Name as it appears in Define Files. @wef*, I could 
> prompt the user a each field with the Field Name( starting at 
> Field 4). In my example that follows, I'm prompting the user 
> to Enter the Name, Address and so on at each particular 
> field, when adding a new customer to the customer file. The 
> file has 61 fields, so this saved me lots of typing. Also, 
> using the selection set, called b1browse, displays a 
> different prompt if the user is in fields, 31,39,42,43, and 
> 45, save more typing. 
> 
> Sorry about the odd characters in the example below.
> 
> 
>                       +-------------------------+                  5
>                       | D E F I N E   F I L E S |
>                       +-------------------------+
>   Number   -------------Field Heading--------------    Len   --Type-
>      1 -   MasterCustNo                            ?     6?  rjfill0
>      2 -   IntCustNo                               ?     6?  rjfill0
>      3 -   CreateDate                              ?    10?  mdyy/
>      4 -   Customer Number                         ?    10?  allup
>      5 -   Customer Name                           ?    35?  allup
>      6 -   Address Line 1                          ?    35?  allup
>      7 -   Address Line 2                          ?    35?  allup
>      8 -   Address Line 3                          ?    35?  allup
>      9 -   City                                    ?    20?  allup
>     10 -   State                                   ?     2?  stprov
>     11 -   Zip Code                                ?    10?  zipna
>     12 -   County                                  ?    25?  allup
>     13 -   WebSite Address                         ?    70?  *
>     14 -   A/P Contact                             ?    35?  uplow
>     15 -   A/P Phone                               ?    14?  phone
> 
> etc.

This feature has been available since version 1.

However, the field names MUST be contiguous.

Your Zip code - Zip_code
     Customer Number - Customer_number

The simplest way is to edit your map by adding an underscore to those fields
you wish to use by name.

i.e  amount=qty_shipped*cost is clearer the 10=5*8  (not referring to the
above map)

The one thing to be careful of is that you don't declare a long variable
with the same name as your field name.  This may cause unwanted results. 

You can't use the long name in lookups - ab=foobar(masterCustNo) will not
work.  Although it may sometime in the future.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting