RE: Sorting an array to sequence a sub-file

Just to put this into context for this list (after all, this ain't the RPG list), have you thought about using SQL? SELECT... with an ORDER BY... into a cursor and then processing the cursor seems to work for me. I a real novice at SQL, but I've written dynamic SELECT's where the user can choose their own sort sequence (order). They seem to like that.

Jerry C. Adams
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Subject: RE: Sorting an array to sequence a sub-file

Can you read the source data, from file? By the date you want your
output sorted? Where does this data come from?



Chris Bipes
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Subject: Sorting an array to sequence a sub-file




I have been asked to order a sub-file by a date, and plan to write to an
array instead of the

subfile record until it fills, sort the array, and then load the subfile
from this array.



Sure would be nice to see a SORTS (sort sub-file) command someday, but
probably not too hot.



One disadvantage I have is some of the prograns are in RPGIII, and my
subfile records exceed 256.

So I need more than one array, unless I convert to IV (I might).



Any gotcha's here?