How to define and access an array in COBOL

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HOW TO DEFINE ARRAY IN COBOL. SUPPOSE I HAVE DEFINE NY ARRAY LIKE THIS 01 WS-TABLE ONE 05 WS-TABLE ONE OCCURS 10 TIMES PIC X(10). HOW CAN WE ACCES 5th ELEMENT OF THIS TABLE USING SUBSCRIPT AND INDEX? PLS GIVE ME EXAMPLE

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Active Member Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:35 pm and access an array in COBOL Post subject: Re: How to define

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Rajeev, I'm not sure if I understand your syntax. Define and use a cobol table like this:
Code: 01 WS-TABLE. 05 WS-TABLE-ENTRY PIC X(10) OCCURS 10 TIMES. 05 WS-TABLE-SUBSCRIPT PIC S9(3) COMP-3. MOVE 5 TO WS-TABLE-SUBSCRIPT. DISPLAY WS-TABLE-ENTRY(WS-TABLE-SUBSCRIPT). (or) DISPLAY WS-TABLE-ENTRY(5).

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To answer other part of your question using INDEX. Following is an example:

Code: 01 TEST-TABLE. 05 TEST-TAB

OCCURS 10 TIMES INDEXED BY INDX-1. 10 TEST-DAT1 PIC X. 10 TEST-DAT2 PIC X.

To refrence a particular element in table use SET clause

Code:

SET INDX-1 TO +5 DISPLAY TEST-DAT1(INDX-1)

If you want to process all elements then use PERFORM VARYING INDX-1 FROM +1 BY +1 just like how you would with sub-script variable.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:33 am

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IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. OCCURPGM. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 ARRAY2. 02 OCCUR2 PIC 9(2) OCCURS 10 TIMES. 01 I PIC 9(2) VALUE 1. 01 VAR2 PIC 9(4) COMP-3. 01 SUB PIC 9(2) VALUE 1. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MAIN-PARA. PERFORM 100-ACCEPT-PARA. PERFORM 200-DISPLAY-PARA. STOP RUN. 100-ACCEPT-PARA. PERFORM UNTIL I = 10 MOVE I TO OCCUR2 ( SUB) ADD 1 TO I ADD 1 TO SUB END-PERFORM.

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200-DISPLAY-PARA. MOVE 5 TO SUB. DISPLAY ' OCCUR2 ( 5) ===>'OCCUR2 ( 5).

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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:36 am

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the above code is to access 5th element of array using subscript . just check it out wheather it fullfil your request. plz let me know if its wrong........ thanks..

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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:28 pm

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Thanks Dave I got it

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