Methods for extracting the data fields of a record

The various methods of the getByteField() family enable the data of a specified data field (defined by position and length within the record) to be returned in binary format (as bytes).

The methods of the getStringField() family return the data of a specified data field interpreted as text (string).

If no encoding for converting the data to text was specified by the user, the systemdependent standard encoding (in BS2000 the default value is OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1) is used.

The getKeyField() method returns, on the basis of a key description, the content of a key field as key value.