Using Subscripts › Floating Fields › What You Can Do

What You Can Do

You can retrieve a field that occurs immediately after a variable repeating group (floating field) by creating code that is relative to the end of the variable group.

How to Do It

1. Define the floating group by coding one REC parameter with:
   1. The assigned group name
   2. A start position of 1
   3. The keyword GROUP
   4. A unique group identifier
   5. The group identifier of the last variable repeating group
   6. The length of the floating field in bytes
2. Define the field by coding a REC parameter with:
   1. The name of the floating field
   2. A start position of 1
   3. The length of the field
   4. The keyword ELMNT
   5. The identifier of the group
3. Reference the field directly.