There's just one problem with your attempt.  You must remember that a 
TRANS in UV will lower the delimiters.  So if the field in the remote file 
is value mark delimited, it will be sub-value mark delimited once TRANSed.

You're still an FNG it looks to me. (tic)


Gordon J. Glorfield
Sr. Applications Developer
MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company)
301-360-8839

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/03/2006 04:54:51 PM:

> Finally a question I can answer. Oh boy I am not a newbie anymore.

> File1 dictionary item:

> Field(TRANS("FILE2",FIELD(@ID,'*',2),9,'X'),VM,3)

> so you TRANSLATE to FILE2 using the 2nd value in @ID to return the 9th
> element and then the 3rd position value.

[snip]


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