Re: SUBFILE FOR NON DISPLAY PROGRAMMING....

Oh, I get it. The problem I had with your example is that (as I understand
it) the %elem bif currently returns the DIM value, so it looked like you
were simply bumping up the DIM value. What we need is a different bif,
perhaps %entries or something to indicate the currently allocated number of
elements.

Peter Dow
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From: <Jon.Paris@halinfo.it>
> Not really - the RPG DIM value acts as a "sanity check" and will reject
any
> attempt to access elements outside its range.  I am happy to manage the
memory,
> the only reason I want to be able to set the %Elem value is so that I can
use
> LOOKUP and SORTA on the number of elements that exist.  Currently I use
qsort
> and bsearch which do a great job but are overkill for simple cases.
>
>
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