Problems with simple buildops

[Mike]

Hi Bob,

Sorry I can't help you with your specific problem.

Just a word of caution though... Don't reinvent the wheel.

Parallel jobs already have a lot of builtin functions like Field, Index, Len, etc.

Mike

[bcarlson]

Look at the documentation for buildops or read the header files ($APT_ORCHHOME/include/apt_util). They are broken out by datatype and have tons of examples. Odds are good that most of what you are looking for already exists. Like Mike said, don't reinvent the wheel - unless you can make a better one!

Brad.

[boxtoby]

Thanks guys, most helpful.

I certainly agree that we don't want to reinvent the wheel, but sometimes these things can be useful!

Bob.

[bcarlson]

Sorry, didn't mean to ive the wrong impression. Buildops are awesome - we have chosen to use them over transformers in all of our jobs.

What I meant was that I am guessing much of the functionality you are looking for is already available in buildops. For example, I know there is a length function for strings:

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myint = in.myString.length();

If you need to copy strings or do substrings, use the = and substring functions:

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out.newString = in.oldString;
out.newString = in.oldString.substring(0,5);

I am not familiar with Field and Index, as I have never done any Basic or routines. Hope this provides a good start.

Brad.

[bcarlson]

There is a string function available for buildops that returns the standard C-type string array for an input datatype APT_String:

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    const char buffer[];
    buffer = in.myStrField.terminatedContent();

You can get the length of buffer using the following:

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    int len = strlen(buffer);

Hope this helps.

Brad.