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Don Garland
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Scenario:

I need to append two files, one with detail information and the other with a summary of the detail. I've done this many time using MORE.

The problem I'm having is, the BY FIELD of the summary file variable. I don't know what field the user will select as the BY FIELD and that format must match for the MORE to work.

Here is an example, I need to find a way to set the &FMT variable based on the BY FIELD the user selects.

Any ideas?

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD1
END
-RUN

DEFINE FILE HOLD1
MODEL/&FMT = 'ALL';
END
TABLE FILE HOLD1
PRINT
SALES
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD2
END


TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD3
MORE
FILE HOLD2
END


TABLE FILE HOLD3
PRINT *
END

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Waz
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Perhaps use SYSCOLUM to get the format of the field ?


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Don Garland
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Yep

 TABLE FILE SYSCOLUM
PRINT COLTYPE LENGTH
WHERE TBNAME EQ 'CAR'
WHERE NAME EQ 'MODEL'
-*ON TABLE SAVE
END
-RUN


Thank you,


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Waz
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You have made my day.

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Danny-SRL
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Don,
You don't need the format:
  
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD1
END
DEFINE FILE HOLD1
MODEL=' ALL'
END
TABLE FILE HOLD1
SUM SALES
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD2
END
DEFINE FILE HOLD1 CLEAR
END
TABLE FILE HOLD1
SUM SALES BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD3
MORE
FILE HOLD2
END
TABLE FILE HOLD3
SUM SALES
BY MODEL
END


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