Re: pointer based arrays

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

The old trick that dates from RPG III is to map the database fields to an array 
element in the old I-specs. Something like:

I C-REC
I                             flda101                      Arra1(1)
  etc.

Perhaps a lot of coding, but I think this wil work: read a record and the array 
is filled. It was a long time ago I did this, so I may be mistaken.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler
  

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On 27-1-04 at 15:15 Dan Belu wrote:

>Here is the situation:
>
>       I want to convert filea with a format like:
>flda1 flda2 flda101 flda102 ... flda124 flda201 flda202 ... flda224
>
>       to fileb that looks like:
>fldb1 fldb2 fldb11 fldb21
>fldb1 fldb2 fldb11 fldb21
>.
>fldb1 fldb2 fldb11 fldb21 (times 24)
>
>The fields flda101, flda102, ..., flda124 have the same size and map all
>to  fldb11 and flda201, flda202, ..., flda224 are alike and map to fldb21
>
>I tried to use pointer based arrays to load the data in an elegant way.
>But is not working although is suppose to.
>The problem is that RPG does not load the data into the fields that aren't 
>directly used in the program.