can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we
do?

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can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?..

Answer / kumar vikas

No, we cannot concat fields in Physical File. However, in
logical file, we can concat 2 or more fields together into 1
field. format is..

name concat(fname mname lname)

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can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?..

Answer / ramreddy

NO,CONCAT IS USED LF ONLY.WE CAN;T USE PF.

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can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?..

Answer / kumar vikas

Hello Radha,

wat u r explaining here is a LF... the question was for a PF if fields can be concatenated in a PF. Ur answer is correct but for PF, fields cannot b concatenated.

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can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?..

Answer / radha sammangi

00010A R RECORD2 PFILE(PF1)
00020A DATE CONCAT(MTH DAY YEAR)
00030A MTH
00040A DAY
00050A YEAR


Radha

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can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?..

Answer / karu

no...concatenation  of two/more fields in pf not possible...


  if you want to do it...it can be possible  with the help of  lf(logical file)



example: eid   concat(jdate name dept)

here eid created with
3 other fields:
they are
joining date and
name
and dept...

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