Problem with LOAD inside a FOR/NEXT clause

[#1]

I'd like to load the same table several times, each time giving a different name to it's fields.

Say that I have a "NAME" field on the table. Then I want to load it once as NAME1 then NAME2 and so forth up to NAME10.

Looks easy but it does not work !

Attached sample is pretty straightforward to check the problem !

Any hints or suggestions ?

Thanks in advance !

[boorgura]

Adriano,

not sure if you were looking for this:

FOR NRO = 1 TO 5

VSUFS$(NRO):
LOAD SIGLUF_VSUFS as SIGLUF_VSUFS$(NRO),
NOMEUF_VSUFS as NOMEUF_VSUFS$(NRO)
FROM [TEST165P.CSV] (ansi, txt, delimiter is ';', embedded labels, msq);

NEXT

Let me know if it works.

[boorgura]

Moreover,

if you want them in the same table:

you can use concatenate(VSUFS)

as opposed to storing into a new resident table.

[#4]

It could work. But I'm intrigued why my original MAP approach does not work.

As for concatenating, not a good idea.

This table above is for STATES or PROVINCES.

Say that I have a CLIENT table with three STATEs fields :

• STATE where CLIENT was born
• STATE where CLIENT did last order
• STATE where CLIENT is living

So, we have three foreign keys pointing to the same table (STATEs). I prefered to clone this table. Thus the need to replicate it's load in three different tables...

[boorgura]

In the earlier scenario, you were trying to rename all fields to <fieldname> followed by 1

instead of <fieldname> followed by $(NRO)

I would assume that to be the reason.

[#6]

I posted wrong the ZIP file. Get it again and you'll see it fixed...

[boorgura · Accepted solution]

I figured it out.

it was a problem with the resident table Map_Fields

This did the trick:

FOR NRO=1 TO 5
MAP_FIELDS$(NRO):
MAPPING LOAD * INLINE [
NAME_FROM,NAME_TO
SIGLUF_VSUFS,SIGLUF_VSUFS$(NRO)
NOMEUF_VSUFS,NOMEUF_VSUFS$(NRO)
];

VSUFS$(NRO):

LOAD
*
FROM TEST165P.CSV (OEM, TXT, DELIMITER IS ';', EMBEDDED LABELS, NO QUOTES);

RENAME FIELDS USING MAP_FIELDS$(NRO);

NEXT