Re: bsearch on partial array elements

[David.Biggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Jon and others.
 I knew about the basing pointers but wasn't sure what the C routine would do
when comparing (in my case) a 30 byte key with a 37 byte element. I've tried it
for myself and it works just fine.

I have another question though: in RPG LOKUP (or LOOKUP), you can specify a
field that is set to the element number of the search argument if the search is
successful. The C 'bsearch' returns a pointer to the key value being sought, not
its ordinal position in the array. This seems a bit stupid as I already know
what I'm looking for, what I want is whereabouts it is. Any way I can get this
directly ?

Regards,
Dave





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