Variable Assignments

[Stanley - stanlyn.com]

Thanks Jose,

I was hoping for a simple function that allows getting at the data by
passing a variable containing the field number.  Looks like it is not
supported.  I'll try your idea and that should work, just a bit overkill . 

Thanks again,
Stanley



  

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Behalf Of Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 1:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Variable Assignments

Stanley, try associating your fixed fields to an array and then "reference"
the array by its numeric element - AFAIK, filePro cannot access fixed fields
by associative reference or dynamic variable construct other than as
follows.

So, if you were to

dim fixedF(999):1

and then set your counter up/down and to obtain the value of the fixed field
relative to your counter, you will simply reference the associative array
like so

then: Aa="9"+"1"; Fn=fixedF(Aa);

If memory does not fail me, Fn should now have the same value as fixed field
10 ...


NOTE: Be careful in using this practice since any change to the array 
will effectively change the fixed field.  If you clear the array, you 
are clearing the values of the fields - This is both, powerful and 
dangerous!  ;-)


Good luck!



On 08/21/2016 01:23 AM, Stanley - stanlyn.com via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I get the value of a field (by number) when calculating an offset?
>
> Normally if field 10 equals "test" and we assign aa=10, the value of aa is
"test".  This works as expected.
>
> When I calculate the offset for the field whose value I need, I cannot get
a result of "test" if the variable (from the offset calculation) equals 10.
It is returning 10 instead of "test".  So how do I get it to return the
value of field x?
>
> Aa="9"+"1"
>
> Fn=aa	' returns the number 10 instead of the value of field 10
>
> I've tried fn=(aa) and fn=((aa)) and both returns 10
>
> Thanks,
> Stanley
>
>
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