Re: Multi Dimensional Array

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

Rajeev,

>e.g. in a 80 char wide source file, 20 chars are left unused. So, there
>lies the problem.

For compile time tables, RPG requires you to specify the number of
elements per source statement (or record).  If you had an array of
6000 elements of 1 byte each, and specified 60 per record, then the
compiler doesn't care what is in bytes 61+.  They can be blank or
include comments.  The array is filled using just the first 60 bytes
of each source statement, so byte 1 of the second "record" does in
fact come immediately after byte 60 of the first "record", as far as
the array is concerned.

This is still not what is typically called a multi-dimension array, at
least in English.  

Hope this helps,
Doug
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