Array question

[David Snyder]

On 3/9/2010 4:20 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> When asked his whereabouts on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:53:16PM -0600,
> Aldridge, Inc. took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> dim scremp(7)(26,uplow):ga
> [snip]
>> But in the present case, I want to fill 24 dummy fields, say aa-ax with
>> the contents of 24 sequential fields in a lookup file beginning with
>> field 50 there.
> [snip]
>> Is that a good way to accomplish this? If yes, but where in this example
>> would I tell the local array to begin, i.e. aa?
>>
>> I'm missing some level of understanding here and would appreciate some
>> insights or suggestions. Thanks
>
> I haven't tested, but I -highly- doubt that array overlay will work on
> dummy fields.  To my knowledge, this is only meant to work on real, numeric
> fields.
>
> mark->


Yes, it can be done.  But you need two arrays.

dim array1(24)(24,uplow):lookup(10)
dim array2(24)(24,uplow):aa

Then transfer from one array to the other in a loop.


Loop : ct="24" : end

:: ct=ct+"1" ; array2(2)=array1(ct) ; goto Loop


Dave