QUIZ Heading?

VanSickle, Connie CVanSickle@VICTORIA.COM
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:18:26 -0400


If you generate a subfile in your job stream or on your system that contains
the parms you can access the subfile inside of quiz using the USE command.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert J.M. Edis [SMTP:robert.edis@creatcomp.com]
> Sent:	Friday, April 09, 1999 11:59 AM
> To:	'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> Subject:	RE: QUIZ Heading?
> 
> I sent this directly to Mark last night but forgot to sent it to the list.
> 
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> 4,000
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> Now that's an interesting question.  I don't think you can do it in QUIZ.
> It *may* be possible in QTP using an item declared as an array and
> referenced using the OCCURRENCE predefined item.
> 
> One possibility might be a two pass quiz, the first creating a single
> record
> subfile containing the input values.  The second and main quiz links to
> record 0 of this subfile to retrieve the values string.  Actually the
> first
> pass would have to be QTP in order to create just the one output line.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> $QTP
> GLOBAL TEMP parm_string CHAR*80 INITIAL ""
> ACCESS
> I-don't-care-what-file-as-long-as-its-not-used-much-and-has-more-records-t
> ha
> n-input-values
> CHOOSE x PARM (of course 'x' should be in the input table)
> ITEM parm_string = parm_string + "," + x (or ASCII(x) if required)
> DEFINE dummy = 1 IF SETSYSTEMVAL(input_parms,parm_string)
> SUBFILE sillyfile IINCLUDE x,dummy,parm_string
> GO
> EXIT
> $QUIZ
> ACCESS the-file-I-really-want
> CHOOSE x SYSTEMVALUE "input_parms"
> DEFINE header_string CHAR*40 = GETSYSTEMVAL(input_string)
> PAGE HEAD etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Blue
> PowerHouse consultant
> Rhode Island, USA
> 
> Disclaimer:
> The opinions and ideas expressed in this message are my own and have no
> relationship to my current employer, Initial Technical Staffing, its
> client
> CCI, or any of CCI's clients.
> 
> 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	STEWARTM@dteenergy.com <mailto:STEWARTM@dteenergy.com>
> [SMTP:STEWARTM@dteenergy.com] <mailto:[SMTP:STEWARTM@dteenergy.com]> 
> 	Sent:	Thursday, April 08, 1999 5:21 PM
> 	To:	robert.edis@creatcomp.com <mailto:robert.edis@creatcomp.com>
> 
> 	Subject:	Re: RE: QUIZ Heading?
> 
> 	 
> 	G'day, mate!  How many Albanians is Australia taking in?  Anyway
> here's the 
> 	deal. 
> 	 
> 	CHOOSE x parm, y parm 
> 	 
> 	DEF z CHAR*n = PACK(x + ", " + y) 
> 	 
> 	PAGE HEAD & 
> 	  TAB 40 z SKIP ...& 
> 	 
> 	In the case of an unlimited choose if x is 10 different values.  How
> do I
> 	get 
> 	all 10 into the define. 
> 	 
> 	Mark << Message: RE: QUIZ Heading? >> 
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