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Hmm, to me, an array _is_ a collection. In VB, it's a collection of objects, which turns out to be just a list of pointers. Record buffers are just a contiguous group of bytes in memory. You can certainly manipulate one to be the other without the need for IBM to do anything.
I think the point was that in VB, he can refer to them by the variable name, even though which variable he's referring to isn't known at the time he's writing the source code.
The reason this is possible is because VB was designed to be an interpreted language. I haven't worked in VB in quite awhile, but back in the day that I worked in it, you could run a VB program without compiling it -- so the variable names were still there at runtime.
On the other hand, you can't do that with Visual C becuse it's a purely compiled language. (like RPG is)
I already suggested 3 different ways to preserve variable names and use them at runtime, though. None of those will serve the purpose?
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