Thanks for all the help, folks! It solves my problem quite well and lets me document it in one place.
"These things almost fly themselves." As always, you all super! BobW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevenson, Charles Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:26 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UV I-descriptor > From: Louie Bergsagel > Ron Pingilley's solution works, with his posted correction to > plug in fields 5 and 9. Ron's method does indeed work. Nice work, Ron! Now let's generalize it a bit. Suppose the final answer is a string instead of numeric. You can replace the outer 02: SUM(MULS(...)) with o2: CONVERT(@VM,'',IFS(...,'') as follows: 02:CONVERT(@VM,'',IFS(EQS(RAISE(TRANS("FILE2",OCONV(@ID,"G1*1"),5,"X")), REUSE(OCONV(@ID,"G3*1"))),RAISE(TRANS("FILE2",OCONV(@ID, "G1*1"),9,"X")),'')) or equivalently: 02: @ID['*',4,1];TRANS(FILE2,@ID['*',2,1],-1,'X');EQS(@2<1,5>,REUSE(@1));IFS (@,@2<1,9>,'');CONVERT(@SM,'',@) depending on taste/standards manual. Of course, we're still left with the problem of maintainability. Chuck Stevenson ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
