RE: Array Lookup -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: Array Lookup
From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:03:08 -0400
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>Does V4R5M0 of RPG do a binary search
>to find the equal condition and only
>read the entrys until it gets a match
>or will it read all entries before giving
>me an equal condition? If the latter,
>does V5R1M0 make any changes
>to this processing?

I could not find a reference in the RPG Reference, but I believe the LOOKUP
opcode always does a read/compare loop, while the %lookup BIF does a binary
search.
  --buck

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