Question display/export all fields of a buffer handle

How to export or display all the fields in a buffer handle without using buffer-field(n) or buffer-field("fldName")? My program will get the table name as input, create a buffer handle for it, and using a query handle will loop through the records and display them.

You can't as far as I know. You have to loop through all the fields.

hmmm....
I think i need to loop through all the fields and construct a delimited string and export it..
thanks

If you know the name of the table (and you say that you do) then you could use code similar to:


But this seems like self-flagellation. If you are already dealing with buffer and query handles why are you trying to avoid buffer-field()?

You could do WRITE-XML() or WRITE-JSON on the buffer handle, use "LONGCHAR" as the target-type, then do something with the LONGCHAR, which will contain all the field names and data values. However "do something" will probably look a lot like using buffer-field(n), and, I believe the WRITE-*() methods only work on temp-tables, so you might need to create a TT for that purpose. Seems like a lot of work

thanks