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  3. June 2008

Re: Sorting A Table

Doh - I must stop mixing my languages! (and metaphors - but that's another problem!) Must be an old-age thing.

The information on "idexed" is fine - but as others have pointed out COBOL can't sort internal data - you have to call an API for that.

On 5-Jun-08, at 6:58 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Robert - you can't sort on the field declared as the index. You need
to sort on the table itself (or a subfield of it).

The index is somewhat similar to the "hidden" index in an RPG table
or a Multi-Occ DS.

In COBOL I always found them more trouble than they were worth.

You should be able to simply remove the "Indexed by" clause and index
into the array any which way you want.


Jon Paris

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