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rgk
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 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 6:30 am Post subject: How to find the offset of a variable? |
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Is there any way to find the offset of a variable within its group. For example in the following code
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01 WS-GROUP.
05 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5).
05 WS-VAR2 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR3 PIC X(7).
05 WS-COUNT PIC 9(1).
05 WS-VAR4 OCCURS 1 To 10 TIMES DEPENDING ON WS-COUNT
10 WS-VAR5 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR6 PIC X(6).
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If in the above code, the value of ws-count is 3, then the offset of the variable var6 will be 38 as follows.
5 + 6 + 7 + 1 + ( 6 * 3 ) = 37
Is there any way to find this offset dynamically without hardcoding the lengths of the variables.
Thanks in advance
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Kannan RG |
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Mike Tebb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:18 am Post subject: |
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01 WS-GROUP.
05 WS-GRP1.
10 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5).
10 WS-VAR2 PIC X(6).
10 WS-VAR3 PIC X(7).
10 WS-COUNT PIC 9(1).
05 WS-VAR4 OCCURS 1 TO 10 TIMES DEPENDING ON WS-COUNT.
10 WS-VAR5 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR6 PIC X(6).
01 WS-OFFSET PIC S9(3) COMP-3 VALUE 0.
COMPUTE WS-OFFSET = (LENGTH OF WS-GRP1 +
(LENGTH OF WS-VAR4*WS-COUNT))
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rgk
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your reply Mike.
But then i have a problem here. We also thought of this solution.
But in a later stage if we include one more occurs depending on clause before var6, then i need to change the formula for calculating the offset.
We do not want this. Just by giving the name of the variable can we get its offset within its group?
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Kannan RG |
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Dibakar
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Kannan,
Mike Tebb's answer with slight modification might solve your purpose with original code -
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01 WS-GROUP.
05 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5).
05 WS-VAR2 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR3 PIC X(7).
05 WS-COUNT PIC 9(1).
05 WS-VAR4 OCCURS 1 To 10 TIMES DEPENDING ON WS-COUNT
10 WS-VAR5 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR6 PIC X(6).
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Calculating offset:
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COMPUTE WS-OFFSET = (LENGTH OF WS-GROUP - LENGTH OF WS-VAR6)
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Mike Tebb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Or, if fields are going to exist after WS-VAR6 then try:
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01 WS-GROUP.
05 WS-GRP1.
10 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5).
10 WS-VAR2 PIC X(6).
10 WS-VAR3 PIC X(7).
10 WS-COUNT PIC 9(2).
10 WS-VAR4 OCCURS 1 TO 10 TIMES DEPENDING ON WS-COUNT.
15 WS-VAR5 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR6 PIC X(6).
05 WS-VAR7 etc....
01 WS-OFFSET PIC S9(3) COMP-3 VALUE 0.
COMPUTE WS-OFFSET = LENGTH OF WS-GRP1
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Just make sure that any new occurs fields are within WS-GRP1.
P.S. Also realised that WS-COUNT needs to be 2 bytes.
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