Re: Subfile question - Position To functionality

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 12/14/2016 12:43:12
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----- Message from Bill Howie <blhowie66@xxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 14 Dec
2016 12:42:57 -0500 -----

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Re: Subfile question - Position To functionality

Jon,

Here's my definition of my array:

loc s 8 dim(1600) ascend

Here's my lookup:

eval n = %lookupgt(scpos:loc)

The "SCPOS" field, in the scenario I'm looking at, would have be like

this:

"OVbbbbbb" where the b's are blanks. I would want to position my

subfile

to records which could have just "OV" in them, or "OVERFLOW", or
"OVER-1AB", etc. So I'm basically entering a partial value in my search
field and I want to be able to find the array elements from there on. If
LOOKUPGT won't work I'll just go to creating a temporary file to hold my
locations. If I do that, SETLL would work in this scenario, right? We

are

at V5R4 FYI.

Bill

This may be irrelevant, but does the case srcpos and the data in the array
match? I've seen code where the search criteria never worked because it
was upper case and the data was mixed case or lower case or vice versa.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
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