Re: Dynamic arrays

I haven't tested this but would not the use of SETOBJACC to move the
file entirely into main storage give you almost the same speed boost
with *ZERO programming?

 - Larry

lg - Loyd Goodbar wrote:
> 
> I have a work file (about 50 records) that is accessed very often by a RPG4
> program. I was thinking about reading the file into an array to make lookups
> faster. The problem is the file changes in size; sometimes it's 50 records,
> sometimes 60, or 40, etc. I'd like to create a dynamically-sized array at
> runtime. I briefly looked at the ALLOC/DEALLOC/REALLOC opcodes, but they
> really didn't make much sense.
> 
> Is there a relatively easy way of creating dynamic arrays in RPG, or am I
> forced to create an arbitrary upper limit?
> 
> Thanks,
> Loyd
> 
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