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  3. March 2006

Re: Using DS Arrays

Booth Martin wrote:
> ...
> D          ds
> D MODSArray              25     dim(2000)
> D  Item                  20     overlay(MODSArray)
> D  Qty                    5  0  overlay(MODSArray: *next)
> ...
> What is not clear to me is whether or not you can sort on the elements
> and get correct results.  If you were to do sorta on Qty for instance,
> would the resulting sorted array still have correct data?  Would Qty and
> Item still be listed correctly
> 

Yes, that would work as long as Item and Qty are explicit overlays of
MODSArray with the OVERLAY keyword.

   SORTA  Item;   // sort MODSArray by Item
   SORTA  Qty;    // sort MODSArray by Qty

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