Hello

Wasn't there this feature in Progress where you could have more than one
value in a field? It's probably obsolete by now, and I would not use it
anyway, but as a non-Progress programmer reading old Progress databases my
code has to be able to handle that.

What was the name of this thing and how would the data return if you'd read
that field as e.g. a string value?

Thanks in advance
Jan

In article <43c4e131$0$11071$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
"Jan Doggen" <j.doggen@BLOCKqsa.nl> wrote:

> Hello
>
> Wasn't there this feature in Progress where you could have more than one
> value in a field? It's probably obsolete by now, and I would not use it
> anyway, but as a non-Progress programmer reading old Progress databases my
> code has to be able to handle that.
>
> What was the name of this thing and how would the data return if you'd read
> that field as e.g. a string value?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Jan


I have been working with Progress since version 6 and I have never heard
of such a thing.

The only thing I can think of is storing the data as a character and
then using INT(), LOGICAL(), DECIMAL(), etc. on it.

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Thanks Scott,

In that case it was probably something weird the app did, like storing then
'numbers' 1;3;7 in a character field ;-)
It was a long time ago in an old app that I had to support that, the app now
needs a rewrite, and I thought it was a Progress "feature" that we'd have to
still support.

Jan

"Scott Auge" <scott_auge@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <43c4e131$0$11071$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
> "Jan Doggen" <j.doggen@BLOCKqsa.nl> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > Wasn't there this feature in Progress where you could have more than one
> > value in a field? It's probably obsolete by now, and I would not use it
> > anyway, but as a non-Progress programmer reading old Progress databases
my
> > code has to be able to handle that.
> >
> > What was the name of this thing and how would the data return if you'd
read
> > that field as e.g. a string value?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Jan
>
>
> I have been working with Progress since version 6 and I have never heard
> of such a thing.
>
> The only thing I can think of is storing the data as a character and
> then using INT(), LOGICAL(), DECIMAL(), etc. on it.
>
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> Available for Hire! http://amduus.com/Resumes/

Jan Doggen wrote:

> Hello
>
> Wasn't there this feature in Progress where you could have more than one
> value in a field? It's probably obsolete by now, and I would not use it
> anyway, but as a non-Progress programmer reading old Progress databases my
> code has to be able to handle that.
>
> What was the name of this thing and how would the data return if you'd read
> that field as e.g. a string value?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Jan

You could possibly be referring to field extents. Sort of like arrays.

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