RE: [Talk] BWS question for Meditech C/S

[Thom C. Blackwell]

Greetings, Allow me to clarify: DataStation is read (for input) only ftFixedLength denotes is the filetype to be parsed by DataStation   D.Open_(filename As String, filetype As enumFileType, Optional ConfigurationModel as String) Where filetype can be: ftDelimited for Delimited files             ftFixedLength for files with Fixed Length Fields             ftXML for XML files             and so on   In order to have multiple files open – do the following:   Within Tools (VBA), BasBss6 (VB6) module declare additional DataStation objects – one for each file i.e. E as DataStation, F as DataStation …   Note the DataStation generates code using the default object name of D – modify the generated code appropriately.   Set D = New DataStation Set E = New DataStation ‘open file 1 D.Open “fixed1.txt”, ftFixedLength ‘open file 2 E.Open “fixed2.txt”, ftFixedLength …   Please feel free to contact me if any of the above is unclear!   Regards, Thom   Thom C. Blackwell Boston Software Systems www.bostonworkstation.com 866 653-5105       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lew Hundley Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Talk] BWS question for Meditech C/S   If I want to write a loop for a Meditech Magic script to look for EOF, I do something like this   While Not EOF(1)   Where 1 was used to open the file   Open FileName As #1   and is a unique identifier of the file (you don’t have two files open at the same time as 1)   Now, in C/S I need to write a loop using the new DataStation, so the code generated by BWS is   D.Open_ “C:\SOMEFILE” , ftFixedLength   where ftFixedLength is system defined as the number 2. Assuming the same logic is used for the While   While Not EOF(ftFixedLength)   doesn’t this mean that if I wanted to have 2 fixed length files open at the same time (say, transferring data to two file at the same time, that I would have to change the tool-generated ftFixedLength of the second file that I want to open to some other number?   I just want to clarify that I understand the use of ftFixedLength in the D.Open_ statement, since both files could be fixed length files, but the number has to be unique. This may be a stupid question, but I just want to be sure that I understand. TKs for indulging me, Lew Hundley Information Specialist - Programmer Silverton Hospital Silverton Oregon 503.873.1657 [EMAIL PROTECTED]