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  3. September 2002

Re: Pointer based arrays

"Fisher, Don" wrote:
>
> I am using a file in a package system that contains contiguous fields FLD01,
> FLD02...FLD12.  I have defined a 12 occurrence array based on a pointer.
> While executing the program I set the pointer address to FLD01.  I expected
> this would make the FLD** values appear in the array.
>
> Sadly, only the FLD01 value appears in the array.  I know I've done this
> before, but can't think what I'm missing.
>

Don, even though the fields are contigous in the file, they aren't
necessarily contiguous in the program storage.  But you can force them
to be contiguous by coding an externally-described data structure.  You
just need to add one line to your program:

D         E DS           EXTNAME(myfile)

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