Not sure about UniVerse, but UniData has a CLEARDATA verb. Rather than stuffing the data buffer with all this stuff, wouldn't it be just as easy to open the file from within a program and read/process it?
Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karl L Pearson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:41 AM To: u2-users Subject: DATA statement Clearing? I have a program that takes a printed replenishment order (sent via smoke and mirrors to a text file on our uniVerse server from remote sites), parses through it and passes DATA to an Order Entry program (4580 lines long). I'm curious if there's a way to clear those data statements up as part of clean-up in case of an error in the data structure at the remote site. I.E, there are 3 lines of text for each ordered product. On the first line, is pricing, so I do a findstr for a $-sign, which allows me to know I'm on the first of 3 lines for one item. With some of our clients, the inventory item is on the first line and with others it's on the 2nd or 3rd line. My code knows the difference by client number and process correctly, however on some clients, the inventory item number isn't where it's supposed to be, causing the order entry program to go into cardiac arrest. My cleanup then has to undo the locking mechanism (prevents more than one process at a time), plus release locks, etc. I need to be able to clear the data statements because they are currently being passed to the menuing system, which causes the operator to wonder what's going on and hope nothing bad just happened. INPUTCLEAR and CLEARSELECT don't work (I thought inputclear would...). Help? -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 888-972-3182 x29 Fax: 801-972-3888 http://www.atsindustrial.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
