Re: Data Arrays

>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:49:18 -0400
>From: <groyle@cott.com> (Gordon S. Royle)
>
>I've been searching manuals trying to find the RPG equivalent to the
>following Cobol code.
>
>01  INDEX     BINARY.
>01  ARRAY.
>    05   ROWS OCCURS 10 TIMES.
>         10   ELEMENT1       PIC X(20).
>         10   ELEMENT2       PIC S9(5)V9(5) COMP.
>         ETC.
>
>MOVE 9 TO INDEX.
>MOVE 'Wish I could do this" TO ROWS(INDEX).


Gord, a multiple-occurrence data structure (search for OCCUR) is
one possibility, but you can only use one occurrence at a time.

Another possibility is overlay arrays.  If *next isn't supported
on your release, you'll have to code the length of "ARRAY" (250?)
and also the explicit positions of the overlays (1, 1, 21).

D               DS
D  array
D   rows                overlay(array:*next) dim(10)
D     element1    20a   overlay(rows:*next)
D     element2     9??5 overlay(rows:*next)

C         eval     index = 9
C         eval     rows(index) = 'You can do this'
  or
C         eval     element1(index) = 'something'
C         eval     element2(index) = something + else

Barbara Morris


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