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Jason K.
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I want to add a field's value to a column heading.
I'm trying to treat it as if it were a heading, and that's just returning a blank.

BY D_PL AS '
but, if I set it as
HEADING
"
Any ideas?


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Prarie
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In Field Titles you can put amper variables, but not an actual field value. You will have to do a SUBHEAD and line it up.


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susannah
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jason, remember to put code tags around your snippets, especially if they contain any brackets that this board will consider to be html tags.
As Prarie suggests, one way is to first extract that value as an &var.
TABLE FILE thing
PRINT D_PL ..
ON TABLE SAVE
END
-RUN
-READ SAVE &D_PL.A8 (how however long it is)
-TYPE &D_PL
and then see what sort of editing you need to do to the field to get it in shape
TABLE FILE thing
... BY D_PL AS " &D_PL "



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Jason K.
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Thanks for the tip susannah.

Any idea why the data would be showing up as
000007October when I use the -READ method? Is there a way around this?

thanks!

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GamP
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Yes, your D_PKL field is a VarChar field. When holding it, the way this is done is to first put the number of bytes actually accopied followed by the actual characters.
So 000007 is the length of the field, the value is October.
Do a -READ &x.6 &D_PL.8 (or whatever the real length may be), skipping the first 6 (=length of the field) bytes.


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susannah
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yeah, the leading zero thing with alpha versions of numbers...you have to then do a bit of cleanup edit..
I'ld probably use the TRIM function.
(Look up the text string functions section in manual #4 Using Functions.)
When you SAVE or even HOLD FORMAT ALPHA
the numeric values are automatially saved as ALPHA and leading zeros pack out the front of any numeric field. TRIM will remove either leading or trailing instances of a specified character, in this case a 0.
Prarie's way uses the numeric field right out of the data..no leading zero prob..you can tinker with lining up the SUBHEAD, if you wanted to go that route.



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Jason K.
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ended up using
quote:
-READ &x.6 &D_PL.8


Thanks guys!


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FrankDutch
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If the first 6 characters tell you the lenght of the actual field it would be interesting if you can say

-READ SAVEFILE &LENGTH.A6. &ACTUAL.A&LENGHT.

I never tried this, but maybe....




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