Re: Idea submitted: Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Idea submitted: Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:20:24 -0600
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alternatively, some kind of utility like qsort that takes two arrays and a
procptr to filter the entries

Hmmm ... I wonder how hard that kind of thing would be to write in RPG?

OK, I put together a generic procedure with an example that should do what
I'm looking for.

https://gist.github.com/fallingrock/13f59a521d10ea6928e3661aafb008f9

I'm interested in comments, suggestions, etc.

David

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