Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all.

Chris,

As I understand it YOU call a vendor program and pass it a number of
varying parameters (so all the discussion about handling incoming
parameters is moot). That makes it easy enough to define your parameters
as an array and on return loop through the array. But doesn't the vendor
specify what is returned in the parameters? It would appear to be rather
silly to leave parameters 101-199 empty and return data in 200; unless
every parameter had a specific meaning.

Joep Beckeringh

Chris <cholko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for
easy way to scan it all.

I did not mean to imply they would skip parameters in their reply,
what comes back is simply empty. Hence the problem, 1-100 could
contain data, 101-199 might not, and 200 does. Right now the
programmer who has it did 200 if/then construct, though to me
passing through a select/when might be easier on the eyes. Would be
nice if I could map just over the length portion of those varying
fields, perhaps tricks with pointers.