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  • Subject: RE: Based variables
  • From: "Sims, Ken" <KSIMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:37:47 -0500

Hi Mark -

>  How would I load / unload the data?  Here's a simplistic illustration of 
>what I'm doing:
>
>FInputFile   IP ...     DISK
>
>D OneRecord             E DS            BASED( OneRecord@ )
>D                                       EXTNAME( InputFile )
>
>D EntireBatch             DS            BASED( EntireBatch@ )
>D                                       LIKE( OneRecord )
>
>  I'm using OneRecord as my moveable view into the data.  As the file is 
>read I ALLOC/REALLOC EntireBatch and position OneRecord accordingly to 
>"automatically" populate EntireBatch.
>
>  Do you have a more efficient way of doing this?

Not particularly more efficient, but in my opinion more clear.

Replace:
D EntireBatch             DS            BASED( EntireBatch@ )
D                                       LIKE( OneRecord )
with:
D EntireBatch@    S               *

All you really need is the pointer.  Having the data structure could be
misleading to someone else looking at the program.

Since I always define all basing pointers explicitly, in my own code it
would be more obviously that the data structure is not needed.

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of
my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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