RE: Sort of a Data Structure Array... Idea -- RPG400-L

Well Rob, if it's compound keys you want, you'd need to define a Sortfield
(20a) composed of SortKey1 (10a) and Sortkey2(10A), and copy the columns you
want to sort on into key1 and key2.  Then sort on Sortfield to sort the
table.  Definitely kludgy and hard to follow in the trenches....

Eric DeLong
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I looked at that example and it sure wasn't clear to me which field in the 
DS they were sorting on
For example

     D DispItems       DS                  Qualified
     D  DispItemsFld                       Dim(5000) like(Dummy)
     D   Insurance                         Inz(0) overlay(DispItemsFld)
     D                                     like(dummy.Insurance)
     D   Family                            Inz(0) 
overlay(DispItemsFld:*next)
     D                                     like(dummy.Family)
     D   Member                            Inz(0) 
overlay(DispItemsFld:*next)
     D                                     like(dummy.Member)
     D   Claim                             Inz(0) 
overlay(DispItemsFld:*next)
     D                                     like(dummy.Claim)
     D   Assigned                          Inz(*Loval)
     D                                     overlay(DispItemsFld:*next)
     D                                     like(dummy.Assigned)

     D Dummy           ds                  Qualified
     D   Insurance                    5S 0
     D   Family                       9P 0
     D   Member                       2S 0
     D   Claim                        4P 0
     D   Assigned                      D

How would you sort on Member, then sort again on Claim?



Rob Berendt
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> All of this just to avoid using qsort()?  Qsort isn't
> just more flexible, it's also more more efficient.
>
> What's the drawback to using qsort() that
> everyone's trying to avoid it?

Especially when working examples are in the Redbook and in the archive:
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200207/msg00386.html  One can exceed
the 64k data structure size limit by placing the data in a user space and
using the QUSPTRUS API to get a pointer to it.
  --buck



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