Re: Is this the simplest way to define corresponding arrays in D-specs -- RPG400-L

You could use a copy book by having conditional statements and defines for stuff at the top and stuff at the bottom!!

Now THAT's being a modern programmer!

R&D (running, etc.)

----- Original Message -----
Trevor, Perhaps it's because he wants to put it in a copybook?

Jon, frankly, I'm not sure why you consider any of the methods discussed
earlier any 'better' than Michael's compile-time array - they *all* involve
hard-coding data into the program source, in one way or another. Michael's
method is certainly the easiest where one is talking about longer strings
of data (which *can* be specified in the D-specs, but it's ugly). Plus, at
least with a compile-time array, the data strings are all in one place, at
the bottom of the source, rather than dotted about the D-specs or (gasp!)
hidden in a separate copybook (OK, that was *my* idea :))

Rory

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2) <
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The OP did say he wanted to do everything in D-specs (although he didn't
specify why).

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Schutte
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 8:21 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Is this the simplest way to define corresponding arrays in
D-specs

D Array DS 7 CTDATA PERRCD(1) DIM(4)
D SubSet1 1 OverLay(Array)
D SubSet2 6 Overlay(Array:*NEXT)

**
hheader
HHEADER
ffooter
FFOOTER

Or...

D Subset1 Ds 1 CTDATA PERRCD(4) DIM4)
D Subset2 Ds 6 CTDATA PERRCD(1) DIM4)

**
hHfF
**
header
HEADER
footer
FOOTER

Sometimes, things are just over thought...

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

As a slight alternative, how about this:

D ds
D ARRAYS 28

inz('hheaderHHEADERffooterFFOOTER')

D ARRAY dim(4) Overlay(ARRAYS)
D ARRAYA 1 overlay(ARRAY)
D ARRAYB 6 overlay(ARRAY:*next)

Basically the same thing, but it intersperses the 1-char lookup values

with

the 6-char return values.

This also allows slightly easier-to-view formatting of the ARRAYS

string,

to show each ARRAY element on its own line:

D ARRAYS 28 inz('hheader+
D HHEADER+
D ffooter
D FFOOTER')

Rory

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Is this responsive to your request?

D ds
D ARRAYS 28

inz('hHfFheaderHEADERfooterFOOTER')

D ARRAYA 1 dim(4) overlay(ARRAYS)
D ARRAYB 6 dim(4) overlay(ARRAYS: *next)

The simplest way seemed to me to be using an ALT array, but that can

not

be done entirely inside the D-specs; leastways, I couldn't do it.

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