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Posted by: John Dowling
Milford, Ma
over ride a field name
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Published: 23 Jan 2013
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over ride a field name Published by: John Dowling on 23 Jan 2013 view comments(1)

I have the need to modify the item number (drop the leading blank if there is one) in about 40-50 files. the program is a simple one, but I don't want to write 40-50 programs. I know I can override a db file and call the same program, but is there a way i can override the field name (itema, itemd, itmnum, ect) thanks

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Posted by: bobcozzi
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Posted: 7 years 15 hours 10 minutes ago

Use embedded SQL.

myFix = 'UPDATE ' + %trimR(fileName) + ' SET ' + %trimR(fieldName) + '= trim(' + fieldName + ')';
EXEC SQL EXECUTE IMMEDIATE :myFix;