Re: RPG IV Pointers

Hi Jim,

Barbara already answered your original question and I don't know if this helps
clarify or confuse. But for what it's worth ;-)

The BASED keword means that an address is not allocated to the field at
compilation. At run time, an address will be allocated Based on the value of the
pointer field.

D MyPointer                  S                          *
D MyField                     S                      10
Based(MyPointer)

D Fld1                           S                      10
Inz('ABC')
D Fld2                           S                      10
Inz('XYZ')

C                                Eval    MyPointer = %Addr(Fld1)
  *
  * MyField now share the same memory location as FLD1, so MyField has a value 
of
'ABC'.

C                                Eval    MyField = 'DEF'

  * Fld1 now has a value of DEF

C                                Eval    MyPointer = %Addr(Fld2)
  *
  * MyField now share the same memory location as FLD2, so MyField has a value 
of
'XYZ'.

C                                Eval    MyField = 'UVW'

  * Fld2 now has a value of UVW

HTH

Paul Tuohy



Jim Langston wrote:

<big snip>

> Perhaps I am not understanding what the BASED keyword is doing.
> Just what does it do?

<end snip>

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