Re: Field value - Pointers

Excellent response.  You're right.  It also shows that you understand what the 
pointer is doing.
Boils down to personal preference.




joep@beckeringh.myweb.nl on 04/14/2000 07:46:29 PM
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Rob,

Nothing wrong with pointers, but you don't need those for what you are
doing: good old data structures suffice for this.

Joep Beckeringh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Berendt" <rob@dekko.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: Field value - Pointers


> You're right.  I've sent my apologies.
>
> However, this pointer stuff is great.  I am writing a program and found
another use for it.  Check out:
>
>  * DDS only allows us to have 10 character field names.  Therefore
>  * we will print PRTMSG.  However we want the value of PRTMSG to
>  * always be the value of ExceptionId.
> D PrtMsgP         S               *   inz(%addr(ExceptionId))
> D PrtMsg          S                   like(ExceptionId) based(PrtMsgP)
>
>  * We want to print the first 70 characters of ObjectName.  Therefore
>  * we will print the field Objname which will always contain the first
>  * 70 characters of ObjectName.  No moves or substrings needed.
> D ObjnameP        S               *   inz(%addr(ObjectName))
> D Objname         S             70A   based(ObjnameP)


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