Difference between revisions of "DBF ALIAS()"

Revision as of 10:55, 30 March 2009

PURPOSE

Return alias name

SYNONYM

api_dbf_alias()

SYNOPSIS

#include "dbapi.h"
 
char	*DBF_ALIAS()
 
<input parameters>
none
 
<output parameters>
none

DESCRIPTION

The DBF_ALIAS() function will return will return the alias name of the currently selected workarea as an upper case character string, or a NULL if no database is in use.

Recital provides you with 100 workareas by default, however, up to 256 may be set with the DB_MAXWKA environment variable / symbol.

EXAMPLE

The following example returns the alias name of the current workarea, or executes the command specified in the first parameter if no database is open.

#include <stdio.h>
#include "dbapi.h"
 
dbapi_dbf_alias()
{
    char	*alias;
 
    alias = DBF_ALIAS();
 
    if ( alias == NULL) {
       COMMAND(_parc(1) );
       _retc("");
    } else {
       _retc( alias );
    }
}

SEE ALSO

DBF_DBF(), DBF_FMT(), DBF_INDEXKEY(), DBF_INDEXORDER(), DBF_ISEXCLUSIVE(), DBF_ISREADONLY(), DBF_NDX(), DBF_SELECT(), DBF_USED()