FIELDPOS()

Return the ordinal position of a field.

Syntax

FIELDPOS(<cFieldName>) --> nFieldPos

Arguments

<cFieldName> Name of a field.

Returns

<nFieldPos> is ordinal position of the field.

Description

This function return the ordinal position of the specified field <cField> in the current or aliased work areaIf there isn't field under the name of <cField> or of no database is open in the selected work area, the func- tion will return a 0.

      FUNCTION Main()
      USE Test NEW
      ? Test->(FIELDPOS("ID"))
      USE
      RETURN NIL

Status

Ready

Compliance

This function is CA-Clipper compliant.

Files

Library is rdd

See Also

• FIELDGET()
• FIELDPUT()