RE: Big complex parameter.

Having looked at that page, is anyone else tired of IBM using REXX for
examples in AS/400 manuals? Don't they realize that only IBM employees
and a few people playing in the sand box, actually use REXX?

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Buck Calabro
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Big complex parameter.
>
> Rob,
> The book to look at is
>
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c4157214
13.h
> tm
>
> Bob beat me to posting the layout of the passed "list in a list."
Here's a
> code fragment that should help somewhat.  I don't try to receive the
whole
> input parameter in a single variable; I use pointers.  Before that I
was
> stuck.
>
>  * define one larger than the number of files on the cmd
>  * the "extra" is for the file count.
> d input           s              5i 0 dim(301)
> d numFiles        s              5i 0
> d file            s             10i 0
> d mbr             s             10i 0
> d mbrName         s             10a
> d offset          s             10i 0
>
>  * each file can refer to 50 members
> d thisFile        ds                  based(thisFilePtr)
> d  numSomething                  5i 0
> d  fileName                     10a
> d  filler                        2
> d  numMbrs                       5i 0
> d  mbrList                      10a   dim(50)
> d thisFilePtr     s               *
>
> c     *entry        plist
> c                   parm                    input
>
> c/free
>    numFiles = input(1);
>    offset   = 0;
>
>    // File loop
>    for file = 1 to numFiles;
>    offset   = input(file + 1);
>    thisFilePtr = %addr(input) + offset;
>
>       // Member loop
>       for mbr = 1 to numMbrs;
>         mbrName = mbrlist(mbr);
>       endfor;
>
>    endfor;
>
>    *inlr = *on;
>  /end-free
>
> Interested lurkers should paste Rob's command in and look at this in
debug.
> SPecifically, just before the member look, look at thisFile in hex.
Here's
> a sample command to use with it:
>
>  ===> ROB FILEMBR((FILE1 (MEMBER101 MEMBER102 MEMBER103)) (FILE000002
> (MEMBER201
>  MEMBER202)) (F3 (MEMBER301 MEMBER302 MEMBER303 MEMBER304 MEMBER305)))
>
>
>   --buck
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