screw up?

[Darren Reely]

"Paul (Pablo) Grim" wrote:
> 
> Hi listers,
> 
> I recently defined a new record structure for electronic W2 reporting to
> Social Security.
> 
> The record structure has 4 or 5 fields that are duplicated.  That is; the
> same data goes on the record twice for each of these fields.  At least for
> my organization.  Other orgs could report different data in these fields
> which is why they are available.

You say other orgs could place different data in these fields.  So name
them differently.  If the document your looking at suggests what they may
be named, then take a hint from that.  If needs change at your company, the
code maintainers will then have a chance to understand the subtle
differences.

As has been mentioned, do not confuse your persistent data with the output
options.  You could simple not insert the duplicated items into the record
structure.  Then on output, just duplicate the single values in the places
they need to appear multiple times.

Darren