Thanks all! Dave, that was the first method I tried.
My problem was twofold
1. I was using SQL to retrieve the string - you can't do that directly into RA0094
2. The array needs ASCEND or DESCEND to use %lookuple
-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2019 3:40 PM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Looking for free format equivalent
"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/02/2019
03:19:00 PM:
In fixed format it was really easy to overlay data like this:
D ds
D RF94 1 84a Dim(14)
D RA0094 1 84a
I could easily eval a text string into RA0094 and "parse" the data
into (in this case) 14 six-character fields.
I need to use %lookup on RF94.
The following will allow you to set (eval) the data structure name to your 84-character string and then do a %lookup on the array inside the data structure.
dcl-ds RA0094;
RF94 Char(6) Dim(14);
end-ds
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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