Darrin- Years ago at ADP we used to used dimensioned arrays to maintain a list of open file pointers (as well as item-ids and the records associated with them).
So I don't think dynamic arrays will work, but if you switch to dimensioned arrays (ideally with a common include file) you should be fine. Brad. Idiot at large On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Darrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to store file pointers in a dynamic array? Or is there > another way to pass a variable number of file pointers to various > functions? > > The problem is that when attempting something like: > file_ptrs<-1> = new_file_ptr > > The following error is returned: > Invalid or uninitialised variable -- ZERO USED , > Var temp_file_ptr , Line 66 , Source process_gpw_node.b > Trap from an error message, error message name = ZERO_USED > > (The variable is defined, it just can't be placed into a dynamic > array.) > > The purpose for this is that when recursively walking an xml tree and > importing data into jbase, I would like to open files and pass file > pointers to between functions. The idea being, to avoid the overhead > of opening and closing multiple files when processing each node. > Otherwise, files would be opened and closed thousands of times a > second. My assumption is that there would be some serious overhead to > this. > > -- > Please read the posting guidelines at: > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines > > IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific > to Globus/T24 > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
