BBjTemplatedString::getFieldLength

Description

In BBj 14.0 and higher, this method returns the defined length of a BBjTemplatedString field.

Syntax

Return Value

Method

int

getFieldLength(string fieldname)

Parameters

Variable

Description

fieldname

The fieldname of the field.

Return Value

Returns the defined length of the specified field.

Remarks

None.

Example

rem ' BBjTemplatedString

t$ = "state:c(2),name:c(25+=8),capital:c(25**=9),pop:n(6*),size:n(5*=)"

t! = bbjapi().makeTemplatedString(t$)

print t!.fattr()

n! = t!.getFieldNames()

for f = 0 to n!.size() - 1

  f$ = n!.get(f)

  print ""

  print f$,

  print ",getFieldType=",t!.getFieldType(f$),

  print ",getFieldLength=",t!.getFieldLength(f$),

  print ",getFieldRepeat=",t!.getFieldRepeat(f$),

  print ",isFieldTerminated=",t!.isFieldTerminated(f$),

  print ",getFieldTerminator=",t!.getFieldTerminator(f$),

  print ",isFieldTerminatorEscaped=",t!.isFieldTerminatorEscaped(f$),

  print ",isFieldEOSTerminated=",t!.isFieldEOSTerminated(f$),

  print ",isFieldPadded=",t!.isFieldPadded(f$),

  print ""

next f

See Also

String Templates

BBjAPI

See the BBj Object Diagram for an illustration of the relationship between BBj Objects.