A coworker just ran across the following in one of our DICTs. The name of the item indicates it was written by someone who is no longer with the organization and was well known for knowing wonderful arcane UniData tidbits. We can't find anything describing what exactly is going on. The end result is very useful. I'm wondering if anyone can explain the @#"" bit.
OCONV(@ID,"G*1"); OCONV(@,"FILE;X;0;0"); @#"" The file the DICT is in has a compound key: ACCOUNT.NUMBER*sequential. What this item does is grab the account number, attempt to read from FILE and return a 0 if the account doesn't exist in FILE or a 1 if it does. Pretty nifty. UD7.1 AIX5.3 TIA, Brad. U.S. BANCORP made the following annotations --------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
