RE: How do you use *HIVAL and *LOVAL?????

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How is the name information stored?  Are there rules you can depend on if
the name is in one field?  *hival or *loval would apply if you were
searching a sorted array and wanted to stop the search when there was no
more data in the array.  

Works sort of like this.  Specify the array as ascending.  Initialize your
array to *hival.  Load the array with name information (presuming it is
possible to identify the last name.)  Sort the array.  When you use lookup
(or lokup) specify both the equal indicator and the high indicator.  This
will guarantee that the search will stop before the end of the array when
there are fewer names than array cells.    
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil & Vera Hayes [mailto:PHayes1@Prodigy.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 5:52 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: How do you use *HIVAL and *LOVAL?????
> 
> 
> Hello,
> My Next assignment requires a generic search for customer's Last Name.
> 
> Would I use *HIVAL and *LOVAL, and it so, how do I incorporate it?
> 
> I have learned much from all of you in this form, and your 
> help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> Thank You
> Phil
> 
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