[AccessD] Transfer text field name

Whoa, thanks for that.  It never would have occurred to me to do that.

I have a file spec with all the fields and their start / stop positions, as
well as the format.  I kinda figured I'd build a table that has all of that
info plus my corresponding field name (it's a rather monstrous query since
it pulls from about a dozen normalized tables).  Then build a function that
opens the recordset and builds each record based on their field spec table.

In the end, what a PITA.  But your suggestion will definitely make things
easier.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:43 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problemsolving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Transfer text field name


On 1 Apr 2004 at 19:12, John W. Colby wrote:

> In the coming months I will have a similar problem to solve.  My client
> handles claim processing for disability insurance - the middle man / call
> center role.  Their client - the insurance company - is moving to new
> software and I have to change to outputting just the fields that we
already
> export to them, perhaps 60 or 70 fields, into a single record of hundreds
of
> fields, formatted EXACTLY as they dictate, fixed field width.  They can't
> even handle delimited, it must be fixed width fields.  Literally about
3000
> bytes per record with all the blank fields just spaces.
>


A suggestion based on bitter experience for when you get round to this.
Don't try to build the output by concatenation of variable length strings,
it quickly
becomes a nightmare to keep track of where you are.

Build the full string first with
strOutputString = Space$(3000)

Then insert your fields in the correct position with
Mid$(strOutputString,lngFldPosn) = strFieldData




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