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gans79 · Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 51 Topics: 27

hi,
I've a question on Linear seach,i have a table of size 100 but it will not be loaded with data completely, & while performing a search i want to restrict the search such that it searches the table with valid data, & be more efficient,

Thanks
Ganesh

mahapatrasoumya · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

define your table with a depending on clause so that while loading ur table it only loaded as much as your data is. Keep incrementing the value of subscript till ur exhaust all record that have to be loaded.

thanks

mahapatrasoumya · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:51 am Post subject:

Hi gans79,

If you define your table with an indexed by clause even without a depending clause and then do alinear search with the SEARCH keyword your job is done.

Because SEARCH does a linear search and stops as soon as it finds the first occurence of an element.

Thanks,
Soumya

shekar123 · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:46 am Post subject:

gans79,

Here in this case if we have a table say with 10 elements and values are already assigned and if we want to find whether the element A1 is found in one of the 10 table entries,we can use this code for serial search.If the element is not found we are displaying as not found and if it found we are displaying as found.
[code:1:80e70f5d7a]
SEARCH TABLE-ENTRY
AT END
MOVE 4 TO RETURN-CODE
DISPLAY 'ELEMENT NOT FOUND'
WHEN TABLE-ENTRY(WS-INDEX) =
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Shekar
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