BBjTemplatedString::getFieldType

Description

In BBj 14.0 and higher, this method return the field type of a BBjTemplatedString field.

Syntax

Return Value	Method
byte[]	getFieldType(string fieldname)

Parameters

Variable	Description
fieldname	The name of the field.

Return Value

Returns the field type (C, N, I, U, F, D, B, X, Y, A, O, K).

Remarks

Methods that return byte[] can usually be treated as if they returned string, because BBj automatically handles the conversion. However, when that byte[] value is directly assigned to an object variable or passed to a Java method, BBj skips the conversion and the raw internal byte[] format is used. You can always use the STR() function to explicitly convert the byte[] value to a string.

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$),