On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:52:21 +0000 (UTC), cprmlao@...
("Luiz") wrote:

>I would look at findfield method of tibointernaldataset.

Thanks. I'll take a look at it.

>
>Luiz.
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>From: "Ross C.Williams" <ross@...>
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>Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:32 PM
>Subject: [IBO] Iterating Fields in IBO Dataset
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>
>> How do you iterate through fields (columns?) in a dataset?
>>
>> I want to test whether a field with a particular name exists in the
>> dataset. With the BDE I would do this by something like:
>>
>> function FieldExists(DataSet: TDataSet; const Field: string): Boolean;
>> var
>> i: integer;
>> begin
>> result := False;
>> for i := 0 to (DataSet.fieldDefs.count - 1) do
>> begin
>> if DataSet.FieldDefs.Items[i].Name = Field then
>> begin
>> result := True;
>> break; //ends iteration since named field was found
>> end
>> else
>> begin
>> Result := dsFieldExists(DataSet, Field);
>> // Calculated or Lookup field exists
>> end;
>> end;
>> end;
>>
>>
>>
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