Re: access computed field of RECORD variable

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Steve White <swhite(at)aip(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ran into a roadblock at the very bottom of a fairly large database
> design implementation.  It will be at least messy to fix, unless there is
> a neat solution.
>
> The roadblock is:
>
> There is a record, which may be from any of a set of similar databases.
> Field names for this record are computed as strings.  Using these strings,
> I need to access fields of the record.
>
> But I can't find the syntax for it.
>
> Now, if a record variable is a known row type, I can get a field of a
> computed name.
> For a generic RECORD I can get a field by putting an explicit name the code,
>        (rec).FieldName1
> But can one get the value of a computed field from a generic RECORD?
>

why are you using generic records then? :-) Maybe there is an elegant
solution to your issue with a bit more context.

merlin