Re: %Lookup Clarification

Chamara,

The fact that removing ASCEND changes the outcome should give you a clue.
With the ASCEND keyword you promise the compiler that the entries in the
array will be in ascending order, so the compiler can use a binary search.
Initially all entries in the array are blank; when you fill entry 1 the
order is broken. The manual has a special paragraph about this (page 553
in 7.1).

You have several options:
- Don't specify ASCEND - the search will be somewhat slower
- Keep track of how many entries in the array are filled and give that
number als fourth parameter to %lookup
- (For completeness' sake:) Initialize all entries with *HIVAL

Joep Beckeringh

%Lookup Clarification

Chamara Withanachchi

Hi,

I cannot recall this earlier, I'm in a 7.1 box with latest PTFs applied,

I

have done a %Lookup operation to a array as bellow

D poArr S 6 DIM(9999) ASCEND

C Eval P = 1
C Eval P = %LookUp(Arr1(Idx1) : poArr : P)

When I see the array in Debug mode I can see the search criteria is in
the poArr array, but P become 0 after the %Lookup even though values are
in poArr array

When I removed the ASCEND keyword, P became the element no of the poArr
Array, (%Lookup Success) any idea What I'm I missing here?


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Regards,

Chamara Withanachchi