Referring to an Individual Field

You can refer to an individual field in any one of the following ways:


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Example: Referring to an Individual Field

In the following requests, DEPARTMENT is the complete field name, DPT is the alias, and DEP is a unique truncation of DEPARTMENT. All these examples produce the same output.

1. TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
   PRINT DEPARTMENT
   END
2. TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
   PRINT DPT
   END
3. TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
   PRINT DEP
   END

Note: If you use a truncation that is not unique, the following message will appear:

(FOC016) THE TRUNCATED FIELDNAME IS NOT UNIQUE : D


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