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Re: SORTA of a qualified data structure

Jon Paris wrote:

On Aug 14, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

So before 7.1 you can't do this with a qualified DS - but a
non-qualified one does work, I think.

Correct Vern, but you can use the technique I demonstrated where the array is on a group field - not on the DS itself. Same effect - just not as "pretty".


Not quite correct ... before 7.1, the rules are the same for a qualified and non-qualified DS. You can define a group field ("info" in my example below) in a qualified DS too.

D myDs ds qualified
D info dim(100)
D name 10a overlay(info:*next)
D id 9p 0 overlay(info:*next)

sorta myDs.name;

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