change size of two fields without increasing size of file

[Nancy Palmquist]

Dennis,

It never hurts to have a backup of the file. 

But better yet, if you wanted to change an edit - for example,

You had a date field (8, mdy/) and you wanted it to be (10, yymd/) 
filePro would not only add 2 characters it would apply the new edit so 
the results would now have the dates in the new format.

This is a very useful tool also.

Nancy
Dennis Malen wrote:
> Ken,
>
> So the size of the file will remain the same and the all the other fields 
> will remain intact as there are over 300,000 records in this file?
>
> Yes, we do intend to use ddefine.
>
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
> Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:15 PM
> Subject: Re: change size of two fields without increasing size of file
>
>
>   
>> Dennis Malen wrote:
>>     
>>> Assume the following:
>>>
>>> Field 7 is 20 digits.
>>> Field 86 is 6 digits.
>>>
>>> I want to add 5 digits to field 7 and reduce field 86 to 1 digit.
>>>
>>> Can I go in and change the size and let it rip? Will all the other fields 
>>> remain intact?
>>>       
>> If by "go in" and "let it rip", you mean "use ddefine to make the change 
>> and let it restructure the file", then of course the other fields will 
>> remain intact.  Why would this scenario be different than any other?
>>
>> If you meant something else, then you'll need to explain further.
>>
>> -- 
>> Kenneth Brody 
>>     
>
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