Re: DS fields -- RPG400-L

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Doug,

At 09:34 PM 7/11/99 GMT, you wrote:

>So if a one DS had a given field as (for example) its third subfield,
>how could that same area in storage also be in another DS with
>different subfields surrounding it?

 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't each field in a DS a pointer to an area
in memory?  So, if I have 3 fields coming from three different files and
are combined in one DS, changing one field will change the value of the DS.
 So why can't the same field be in multiple DSs?  It's just another pointer
to the same area in memory, right?

 -mark

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