RE: Data Structure array/Lookup questions

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Rob Berendt Wrote:

I don't think you can dimension a 'traditional' array that way.  There are 
other arrays, playing tricks with %alloc or some such animal.  However, I 
get the impression that is one feature the compiler developers wish they 
could take back.

Do you even need to look at the detail information?  I take it this isn't 
some simple report or you wouldn't even need arrays, just print at control 
break time.  Would a SQL GROUP BY with a fetch loop work?
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Thanks for the reply.  This is not for a report, it is for a data extract.
And the file is keyed by date, to avoid reading through the entire 13mil
records.  

I don't want to resort to "trickery"... I will look into this %alloc animal
though, because I would use some well-documented, reliably built "trickery",
for this case.  

Using SQL would work, except for I don't have the Licensed Goods, so I would
have to resort to using Call Level Interface, which seems to be a lot of
extra coding for the desired result.  

Tony Carolla
MedAmerica Billing Services, Inc.