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.
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