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Posted by: Chris Proctor
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Columbia Sports Company
Portland, OR
Data structure to a record format?
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Published: 03 Sep 2015
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Data structure to a record format? Published by: Chris Proctor on 03 Sep 2015 view comments(2)

Hi all. I'm having a brain fart this morning...... I know I can define a data structure that can be used as the layout for a write to a flat file, but I can't remember how I need to code the moving of the data structure to the flat file record format prior to the write. Can someone please refresh my memory?

Thanks!

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Posted by: BrianR
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Posted: 8 years 8 months 5 days 7 hours 3 minutes ago
Edited: Thu, 03 Sep, 2015 at 11:13:37 (3170 days ago)

No need to move the data structure. If you make the data structure length the same as the file record length, then you would code the write like this:

Write filename dsname

Posted by: chrisp
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Portland, OR
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Posted: 8 years 8 months 5 days 6 hours 50 minutes ago

Oh, awesome, Brian! Thanks!