RE: %elem

Thanks for this link.  It is very informative.  

I was actually trying to write a routine to go through each sub-field of
an array when the array is defined as an extname.  I was trying to write
a generic routine to which I could pass the file name which will get
referred in the extname (inputfilename).  Since this was a copy book, I
could open the source and replace the file name.   So I can do the fetch
filecursor into fileDs.  I got everything to work except, I could not
read from the data structure since I did not know the name of the
sub-fields.  

I was just wondering if like in java, where we can read through
ResultSet till it ends and get all the column we need, could we do the
same thing like:

Java: 
while (rs.next())
  i=1;
                          
  // loop through every field in this record.
  for(i=1; i <= colcount; i++){
         data[i-1] = rs.getString(i);
         out.println("<TD>" + data[i-1] + "&nbsp;</TD>");
  }
}

SQLRPGLE: 
 for i= 1 to %size(fileDs)
        For y=%elem(fileDs) down to 1
                <Get the fields from fileDs>
        endfor
endfor

This is not a show stopper since I can write a java code for this, but
am just curious to know if there is something out there that I can use.
Perhaps a base pointer to the ds and read *next? 

Thanks,
Sudha

Sudha Ramanujan
SunGard Futures Systems
sramanujan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(312) 577 6179
(312) 577 6101 - Fax

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Paris [mailto:Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 1:50 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: %elem

It is really difficult to tell what you are trying to do but _if_ what
you
are attempting is to treat a series of input fields as an array you may
find
the information in this article of interest.
http://www.eservercomputing.com/iseries/articles/index.asp?id=553

If that is not what you want to do, I'm afraid you'll have to explain
yourself a little more.

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com


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