Re: passing data structure as function parm

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 dmosley@dancik.com wrote:

> d data_struct  e ds      extname(FileName)

Does the data structure have to be external?  Can I do:
Ddata_struct    DS
Dfield1                 1S 0
Dfield2                 2A

and pass that?

> d @subProc       pr
> d  in@ds            like(data_struct)
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> c         callp     @subProc(data_struct)
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> p @subProc     b
> d         pi
> d  in@ds            like(data_struct)
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> c  - calculations
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> p         e
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> If you don't define the in@ds with VALUE, the values loaded in IN@DS, in
> your sub-procedure, will be loaded into data_struct upon return.
>
>
> David L. Mosley, Jr.
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>                     James Rich
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> I want to pass a data structure as one of the parameters to a function
> (oops - I mean sub procedure).  So I get something like this:
>
> caller:
> C    eval err = get_data(data_struct)
>
> then called does:
> C    z-add     data data_struct.field1
> C    z-add     data data_struct.field2
> etc.
>
> returning to caller:
> C    z-add     data_struct.field1  field1
> C    z-add     data_struct.field2  field2
>
> I don't know how to do this in RPG.  I'm at V4R1.  Any help?
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
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