Re: 4GL Input Array Questions

Posted in 1998

Jonathan Leffler — Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:31:51 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Tony Marasco wrote: > A colleague and I were discussing if it is possible to > programmatically go to specific rows while in an INPUT ARRAY > statement. We could not find anything in the books and > he has taken several Informix classes with no mention of this. > NEXT FIELD works fine for columns, but the current row only. > > Can this be done in 4GL? Yes, but it is painful enough that I'd never do it. On the other hand, D4GL has a function call which locates a specified row in the program array on a specified line in the screen array, and can be used in both INPUT ARRAY and DISPLAY ARRAY. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>