Re: Need OCCURS when defining data structures

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

 I'm pretty sure that this will NOT work.  It will probably end up 
with the entire array containing the value in element 1.

 -mark

At 2/3/09 03:40 PM, you wrote:
> Does this do what you want done?
>
>   C    MOVEA   ARRAY1        ARRAY1(2)
>   C    EVAL    ARRAY(1) = NewValue
>
>
> I haven't tested this.  You might have to define a second array, but I
> believe not.
>
> James Newman, CDP wrote:
> > I'm on a V5R2 machine and rewriting a program that currently uses 
> 60 element
> > arrays when processing records.  As part of the processing I have to move
> > element 59 to element 60, 58 to 59, etc and put the newly read record in
> > element 1.  A friend (thanks Marshall) suggested that instead of using
> > arrays, define the arrays as data structures and move the data structure
> > instead.  This should be much faster.  But do I have to define each element
> > as part of the larger data structure?  I guess there's no "OCCURS X TIMES"
> > in RPG, eh?
> >
> > TIA.