On 3/13/08, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  > One based please. Oh please. Pretty please. Aw, go on... :-)
>
>
> If this only were easy...    You may be asking for the wrong thing.
>  One may be pretty once. But two offsets one make two.
>
>  The point here is that you define a structure consisting of a few
>  fields. When the record contains exactly that structure, things are
>  obvious. But what if there is some fixed portion in front of it.
>  Suppose the structure starts at column 17 in the record. I would think
>  you specify that as
>   qualify xyz 17  member field1 ...  member field2 ....
>  The 17 matches what you would have done with spec input ranges.
>
>  But the way it now works is that you must specify  16 because there is
>  also an offset 1 from the structure itself. At least, as far as I
>  understand it. That's why the Piper and I disagree on this. Right now
>  I can correct this by starting my fields in the structure at 0 rather
>  than 1, unless he takes that away.

Sigh... I can see I'm going to have to logon and have a play.
(Not now tho' - too late.)

--
Rod

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