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Jimilives
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Hi, I am not a web-focus user, but am at the mercy of one on a current project that I am on.
I am passing multiple fields that she uses for creating a report. I would like her to interrogate one field, and based on the value of that field, handle another field a certain way. I am a cobol mainframer, so something like - If field A = 'NA' move field A to field C, else move field B to field C. Sure would seem like a simple thing to do, but as I stated, I am not a web-focus developer. A little help for my web-focus newbie please. thanks

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MartinY
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Need to use a DEFINEd variable.

Something such as
DEFINE FILE CAR
AREA  /A10 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' OR 'FRANCE' THEN 'EAST' ELSE IF COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY' THEN 'MIDDLE' ELSE 'WEST';
AREA2 /A10 = DECODE COUNTRY ('ENGLAND' 'EAST' 'FRANCE' 'EAST' 'ITALY' 'MIDDLE' ELSE 'WEST');
COST  /D10 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' OR 'FRANCE' THEN RETAIL_COST ELSE DEALER_COST;
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT AREA
      AREA2
      RETAIL_COST
      DEALER_COST
      COST
BY COUNTRY
END


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Doug
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Jimilives: Or, COMPUTE 
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM 
COMPUTE AREA /A10 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' OR 'FRANCE' THEN 'EAST' ELSE IF COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY' THEN 'MIDDLE' ELSE 'WEST';
COMPUTE AREA2/A10 = DECODE COUNTRY    ('ENGLAND' 'EAST' 'FRANCE' 'EAST' 'ITALY' 'MIDDLE' ELSE 'WEST');
      RETAIL_COST
      DEALER_COST
COMPUTE COST/D10 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' OR 'FRANCE' THEN RETAIL_COST ELSE DEALER_COST;
BY COUNTRY
END

Check out the difference between DEFINE and COMPUTE.

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FP Mod Chuck
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Hi Jimilives

Welcome to Focal Point as you can already see people are very quick to reply and give you the guidance you need.

Since you are so new to WebFOCUS I would highly recommend using IBI education services to help get up to speed.

Don't be shy to reach out!


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