Thanks Keith

        Thanks  Keith  ...now its wokring
        Regards,
        Murali

> -----Original Message-----
> From: keith_mccully@wunderman.co.uk [SMTP:keith_mccully@wunderman.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:59 PM
> To:   RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject:      Re: MODS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >DHDRTBLMODS       DS                  OCCURS(100)
> >DIhdr_Rec_Typ            1      1A
> >DIhdr_as_len                2      3
> >DIhdr_hosp_cod           4      6
> >DIhdr_gr_fil                  7     16A
> >DIhdr_fil_nam             17     26A
> >DIhdr_cnt                  27     35s 0
> >DIhdr_int_flg             36     36A
> >DIhdr_f_spac            37     69A
> >DIhdr_upd_dat           70     77A
> >DIhdr_upd_tim           78     83A
> 
> 
> >EVAL      Hdr_hosp_cod = Ihdr_hosp_cod(1)......
> 
> >I want to set the value of Hdr_hosp_code with    first index of
> >Ihdr_hosp_code..will the above statement does the help for me?
> 
> Murali,
> 
> No. You have defined HDRTBLMODS as a multi occurrence data structure with
> 100 occurrences. However, in your EVAL statement, you treat
> Ihdr_hosp_cod(1) as an array element - which it is not, it is a data
> structure sub field.
> 
> For the above case, you need the OCCUR op code. This will set the data
> structure to the correct occurrence BEFORE you do any data manipulation.
> 
> 
> 1          OCCUR     HDRTBLMODS
> 
>            EVAL      Hdr_hosp_cod = Ihdr_hosp_cod
> 
> Alternativly, set the OCCUR factor 1 to an numeric index field of length
> 3,0 and then set this to 1.
> 
>            EVAL      indVar = 1
> 
> indVar     OCCUR     HDRTBLMODS
> 
>            EVAL      Hdr_hosp_cod = Ihdr_hosp_cod
> 
> I don't know your setup but typically you could iterate thru the data
> structure by putting the OCCUR and EVAL within a loop and setting the
> index
> variable, indVar, to an incrementing loop counter.
> 
> Keith
> 
> PS. Please do not include replies to previous threads in a new post.
> 
> 
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