GET_FLDBUF( )

The GET_FLDBUF( ) operator returns the character values of the con-tents of one or more fields in the currently active screen form. (This operator can only appear within the CONSTRUCT, INPUT, or INPUT ARRAY statements of 4GL.)

field is the name of a field in the current screen form.

program record is the name of a program record, whose members are character variables to store values from the specified fields.

screen-array is the name of a screen array that was defined in the INSTRUCTIONS section of the form specification file.

screen-record is the name of a screen record that is explicitly or implicitly defined in the form specification file.

table reference is the unqualified name, alias, or synonym of a database table or view, or else the keyword FORMONLY.

• ariable is a name within a list of one or more character variables, separated by commas. Variables must correspond in number and position with the list of fields in the field clause.

GET_FLDBUF( ) operates on a list of one or more fields.

References

FIELD_TOUCHED( )

INFIELD( )