Re: re : help with arrays

Buck already gave an excellent answer, but perhaps I can shed a few more
rays of light:

* as I think was pointed out on another list, if you're looking for a
social security number, the common formatting is 111-11-1111, not
111-111-111. Obviously, the format that you really want will affect how it
is coded. . . .  :-)

* SSNO is defined as having 11 positions, but your end result only has
room for 9 digits (plus the 2 hyphens). If you try to move all of SSNO
into SS and then replace two characters with hyphens, you won't end up
with all of SSNO in your result. What format is SSNO in? The answer will
also affect your coding. . .

* S3 starts at postion 4 of SSNO, but you are moving it into SS starting
at  position 5. Again, since SSNO and SS are the same number of
characters, are you sure that's really what you want to do? Same with S5
(starts at position 8 in SSNO, moved to SS starting at position 9).

I think if you look at SSNO and then compare it with what SS looks like
after you're done, you'll see how all the MOVEs affect things. Then, based
on what you want to happen, you should be able to figure out how to make
the MOVEs work. . . .

HTH,

rpg400-l@midrange.com writes:
>D SS              S              1    DIM(11)
>
>
>D                 DS
>D  SSNO                   1     11
>D  S1                     1      3
>D  S3                     4      7
>D  S5                     8     11
>
>c    MOVEA     S1            SS(1)
>c    MOVEA     S3            SS(5)
>c    MOVEA     S5            SS(9)
>
>
>C                   MOVEA     '-'           SS(4)
>C                   MOVEA     '-'           SS(7)


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