Re: *INPUTPACKED ignored for arrays ?

BINGO!

Thank you Alan!

Your technique of defining it as a 120-long alpha field first was exactly the piece I was missing.

You can't overlay an array with an array, but you CAN overlay an alpha field with multiple arrays.

Problem solved!

Thank you to everyone who took a whack at this one. I really appreciate all those who are willing to help when my main turns to brush (spoonerism). And thank you David for putting up with us, warts and all.


Timothy Adair, KA9JFW
Prairie Farms Dairy


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"cfuture" <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.23771.1271724192.2580.rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

It will be "kludgy" I think no matter what based on your data

With Embedded SQL, you can set up a cursor and read it into your data structure. It doesn't check the data. Define the whole array as one subfield and overlay that with two arrays, one with the "real" 7p0 and another character with 4 long. Then a for loop to change it.

You maybe already had that but there's no way around it if you want to put zeros in there or do a LOOKUP or something. (There are other ways to do it depending on your purpose)

The alternative for quicker performance is to use an extra IF wherever you're going to use the packed value.

// -------------------------------------
D ITEMDS DS
D CustSts 1
D CustNbr 7s 0
D CustSub#Dta 120 D CustSubC 4a dim( 30 ) overlay(CustSub#Dta)
D CustSub# 7p 0 dim( 30 ) overlay(CustSub#Dta)
// -------------------------------------
For idx = 1 to 30 ;
If CustSubC( idx ) <> *Blanks ;
SummaryTotal += CustSub#( idx ) ;
Endif ;
EndFor ;
// -------------------------------------

--Alan

I have an RPG IV pgm (not ILE) that is reading in an old QS36F program-described file. This file has a "field" that is actually a 30-element packed numeric array (7,0). For records with valid data in this array, everything is fine; but I have some records with spaces (hex '4040404') in this array, and when it hits one of these, the program gives a decimal-data error (understandably so).

I have specified the compile option of FIXNBR(*INPUTPACKED) but the program is not fixing the data at input-time. Does *INPUTPACKED not work for input arrays? It seems to work for single fields.

And yes, I know, I need to fix the data. I intend to but that doesn't guarantee I won't encounter more of these in this file (or other files). I'd like to nail down a viable solution now. We will be converting to externally-described files eventually but for now this is the situation I have to deal with.

And yes, I have tried every conceivable combination of overlays & arrays to program around the problem. Every attempt either wouldn't compile, or gave the DD error when run.

Me duele la cabeza!

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