RE: Determining Dynamic Array Size

["Brian Piotrowski" <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes and no.  I just remembered that there is no real easy way to create
a dynamic array in RPG.  So using the %ELEM BIF will tell me the size of
the array, but I will already know this since I will be defining it in
my specs.

After thinking how I was going to tackle my problem, I'm going to create
an array of 30 elements, since my code only reads back 10 records and
forward 20 records.

Thanks for the responses.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Booth Martin [mailto:booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:40 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Determining Dynamic Array Size

would %elem() work for you, Brian?

Brian Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Is there a BIF that will tell me how many elements I have in an array?
> In ASP, you can perform a UBOUND function on an array and it will
return
> the number of elements.  Is there such a beast in RPG, or do I need to
> loop through the array, add one to the count and when the element =''
> then my array size is count-1?
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> Thanks,
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> Brian.
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