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

fwiw, this:

D wString s 30
D ARRAYS ds
D ARR1 4 inz('hHfF')
D ARR2 24 inz('headerHEADERfooterFOOTER')
D Array1 1 dim(4) overlay(ARR1)
D Array2 6 dim(4) overlay(ARR2)
/FREE
dsply ARRAYS;
dsply ARR1;
dsply ARR2;
wString = Array1(3);
dsply wString;
wString = Array2(3);
dsply wString;
*inlr = *on;

gave this result:

DSPLY hHfFheaderHEADERfooterFOOTER
DSPLY hHfF
DSPLY headerHEADERfooterFOOTER
DSPLY f
DSPLY footer

Somewhere in there is what you are looking for, I believe?

Maybe this?
D ds
D ARR1 4 inz('hHfF')
D ARR2 24 inz('headerHEADERfooterFOOTER')
D Array1 1 dim(4) overlay(ARR1)
D Array2 6 dim(4) overlay(ARR2)


On 8/8/2013 3:48 PM, craig@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jon summarizes my take on it. If all of the other data in the program
(standalone fields, constants, data structure subfields) can be INZ'd on a
D-spec, why would I want to do something else for an array?

Most of the suggestions seem to be to initialize the values in strings and
use the overlay technique. Since that seems to be the most widely offered
suggestion, I would take that to be the current "best practice".

The applicaiton that I'm using has a known, finite, practically guaranteed
set of values that won't change ('footer', 'header' in my example, another
is 'top', 'bottom', 'left', 'right'). For simple data like that, I want it
hard-coded into the D-specs, no need to load it from a database.

I hoped that something like the following would have been possible
(apologize in advance if the formatting is thrown off, it lined up when I
typed it in).

D Array1 1 dim(4) inz('fFhH')
D Array2 6 dim(4) inz('footer+
D footer+
D header+
D header')

Thanks for all of the suggestions and follow-up.

Craig Pelkie