Re: Array help

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>From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
>Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:06:23 -0500
>
>Okay, for some reason I can't remember how to do this. I need to count the
>number of people for each age that work within the company (for
demographics
>stuff). The problem is that I forgot how to deal with multiple arrays.
>
>The way I am doing this (...and I am open to better ways) is to create a
>multi-column array that holds the age and the count. When I process an
>employee, I will lookup to see if the age is in the array.
>...

Mike, in this case you don't need a 2-column array, but if you did, the
way to do it is with overlay arrays:

D  emplInfo     ds
D     emp                     dim(whatever)
D       age            10i 0  overlay(emp : *next)
D       id_num         10i 0  overlay(emp : *next)
D       name          100a    overlay(emp : *next)

age, id_num and name are all arrays.  If you sort by any one of these
arrays, the whole emp array gets sorted.  So you can sort or search
the whole array using any of the overlay arrays as a key.

Barbara Morris