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Here, chk is an indicator array. The expression in parentheses is a test
- results in either true or false and is assigned to chk, which ends up
either *on or *off (true or false). Apparently, when you specify only
the array names without an index, it processes each element in turn.
Very cool!
HTH
Vern
On 7/15/2011 6:49 AM, Bill Meecham wrote:
chk = (arr = *blanks);elements.
Why does that work?
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 6:17 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Testing An Array
On 2011/7/14 10:04 AM, Robert Munday wrote:
I need to test an array to determine if there are any non-blank
seemsIn fixed format I recall that I could test the whole array. That
--not to work in /Free format.Here's another way to do this. It's a bit more code than some of the
other solutions, but the advantage is that it works for any type of
array, since the comparison is done on the array elements themselves
rather than on the bytes of the whole array.
D arr s 5a dim(4)
D chk s n dim(%elem(arr))
D p s 10i 0
/free
// set up the array data
arr = *blanks;
arr(3) = 'a';
// chk(i) gets '1' if arr(i) is blanks, '0' otherwise
chk = (arr = *blanks);
// look for a '0' in the chk array
p = %lookup('0' : chk);
if p<> 0;
dsply ('element ' + %char(p) + ' is not blank');
endif;
*inlr = '1';
The chk array could be arbitrarily large.
D chk s n dim(1000)
...
p = %lookup('0' : chk : 1 : %elem(arr));
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