System variables from within QUIZ

[fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au]

That's over 100 passes in our case, sometimes.
 
Hmmmm... thanks for the suggestion. Never thought of the MAX verb.
 
However, I've decided to create a flat file record structure and I use
it to create the link to the DAT file, which is of course the text file
I created before hand.
 
As a matter of interest, in Unix, the following command is useful to add
space padding to strings, which I use to allow up to the maximum record
length in my flat file structure ...
 
!cat ./mipss156t2b.ps | awk '{printf("%1251s\n", $0)}' >
./mlink_file.dat

The mipss156t2b.ps is the data portion of the portable subfile and the
mlink_file.dat is the file referenced by the dictionary record
reference. The '$0' is saying, what ever comes out of that CAT command,
use it as a parameter into the printf() function, via the AWK command.
 
I hope this helps.
 
Cheers
 
-----Original Message-----
From: atla38 at dsl.pipex.com [mailto:atla38 at dsl.pipex.com] 
Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 10:45 AM
To: Fernando Olmos
Cc: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: System variables from within QUIZ



You would run a pass to each item, appending to the subfile for each
item total, and then finally run a pass as below,

 

Set sum myresults keep append

Rep sum itemA max itemB max itemC max ...etc...

 

If you know there are n lines you can access the final row using 'link
to record n of * myresults', if not, make it an indexed subfile and give
the results row a unique key.

 

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