Re: Informix 4GL INPUT ARRAY - can you "carry along" program variables?

Someone will probably come up with a more elegant way but I have always had to create a secondary Array Record of just the items to be displayed and perform the obvious task of Inserting New records and Deleting OLD records from the Master Array...Good Luck. -- Rob Vorbroker Phone: 513/336-6741 Vorbroker Consulting, Inc. FAX: 513/336-6742 robv@vorbroker.com www.vorbroker.com Peter Lancashire <Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk> wrote in article <35113D70.2659@bayer.co.uk>... > Is it possible to have a program record array which is edited with an > INPUT ARRAY statement where some of the program record array variables > are not displayed in the INPUT ARRAY *and* the non-displayed variables > are correctly inserted and deleted with the INPUT ARRAY operations on > the array? > > I know a possible bodge is to have a long string, first char blank and > displayed on screen, rest of string contains the other variables as > text. This imposes overheads in extracting and writing back into the > string. It's also hard to maintain. > -- > Peter Lancashire > Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc > Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK > Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 > Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk > --- > My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. > Sorry. > All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. > --- > Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.co.uk/ >