Re: pointer to fields in file, mapped to array

I believe the three buckets per month are in a non-normalized record with
all months in one record. That's 36.

Anyway your D-spec says based(prQty) but your setting ptQty. Undeclared
basing pointers are implicitly defined by the compiler -- no compile-time
error, just run time oddities result.

Stu


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 17:28, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How could it. You said you only had 3 fields per record, not 36. You are
just looking at other memory past the 3 fields in your records.

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have the following:
a file contains 54 buckets (packed 9,0) (one for each accounting week of
year)
to easily get these into an array I make:

an array: QtyArr s like(TAW01) Dim(54) Based(ptQty)
a pointer: ptQty s *

I read a record,
then I set the pointer to the first field in the record:

ptQty = %addr(TAW01) ;

I can work with QtyArr(x) fine...


however I tried to copy this logic to another program (different file),
instead of weekly buckets (packed 7,2) , I have 3 buckets per month...
and the array winds up with garbage...

array: QtyArr s like(VRJAN) dim(36) Based(prQty)
pointer: ptQty s *

read a record
then:
ptQty = %addr(VRJAN) ;

My array has garbage, which when I dump, in the later elements has the
names of different procedures in our binding directory, so either the
pointer is not correct, or the input record isn't all there???

Any Ideas to help debug this?

-gerald


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