Re: Testing An Array

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, got it - nice technique, the kind of comparison changes, as you 
describe - thanks!

Vern

On 7/15/2011 12:41 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> On 2011/7/15 11:52 AM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > You say this works against any kind of array - I wondered about that -
> > an array of packed fields does not allow a test against *blanks, right?
> > So it seems this is always restricted to character arrays. Of course, it
> > could be used to test for all *ZEROS in an array. (How DO we spell that
> > word?)
> Right, I meant that the technique in general works against any kind of
> array, because it is working with the true data type of the array rather
> than the bytes.
>
> So this would find if there is any element in the timestamps array that
> is greater than the due date.
>
>      chk = timestamps>  dueDate;
>
> This would find out if any element in the first N elements of the lines
> array contains a '?'.
>
>      chk = %scan('?' : %subarr(lines : 1 : N));