Re: Defining an array over a group of fields in a file -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Defining an array over a group of fields in a file
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:44:53 -0400
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On 2013/3/12 12:00 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Another DS with the field names in the order you want, and with the
array overlaying them, and no data definitions, forces the fields to be
contiguous, so far as RPG is concerned.

Now maybe the LIKEREC also takes care of this.

The LIKEREC does indeed take care of that. It is a data structure with subfields in the same order as defined in the file.

The READ operation is reading into the data structure that the array is defined over.

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