>>I'm using your struct class for the first time to make some calls to a proprietary API that was written in C++.
>>
>>In setting up a sub-class of struct I run into this in the second structure that I am creating. The ADDR_REC mentioned below is a structure that was created just before this one. How would this be entered in cMembers? It's not the whole structure ADDR_REC and it's not a pointer either.
>>
>>typedef struct
>>{
>> ADDR_REC stack[10]; /********** record stack **********/
>>} ZIP4_PARM;
>
>You have to enter the "primitives" (eg. DWORD, Int, double, whatever) that make up ADDR_REC ... 10 times over.
>
>ZIP4_PARM is a structure that contains an array of 10 structures of ADDR_REC.
>
>You would probably use struct to compose 10 ADDR_REC objects/strings, concatenate them, and then pass them on to the API call that uses ZIP4_PARM. Subsequently, if need be, you would disassemble ZIP4_PARM into 10 ADDR_REC strings and copy them back out to their respective objects.

Gerry,

I appreciate the clairification. The getcmembers() for the ADDR_REC structure looks like this:

LOCAL cTemp
cTemp = "0c1:detail_code, z5:zip_code, z10:update_key, 0c1:action_code, 0c1:rec_type, z4:carr_rt, "
cTemp = cTemp + "z2:pre_dir, z28:str_name, z4:suffix, z2:post_dir, z10:prim_low, z10:prim_high, "
cTemp = cTemp + "0c1:prim_code, z40:sec_name, z4:unit, z8:sec_low, z8:sec_high, 0c1:sec_code, "
cTemp = cTemp + "z4:addon_low, z4:addon_high, 0c1:base_alt_code, 0c1:lacs_status, z6:finance, "
cTemp = cTemp + "z2:state_abbrev, z3:county_no, z2:congress_dist, z6:municipality, z6:urbanization, "
cTemp = cTemp + "z6:last_line"

RETURN cTemp

Since this API requires a lot of structures to even start and I'll probably have a lot of debuging on my hands, I thought that I'd ask about the concatenation up front. Do you think that the concatenation should just be as is with the first field of the next structure being added to the last field of the previous structure with nothing in between or should a comma be placed between so that it looks like one huge structure? ie.
a) z6:last_line0c1:detail_code
b) z6:last_line, 0c1:detail_code

I assume that it is "b" and I assume that the struct class or whatever will see this as 10 copies of the same structure.

Thanks again.

Ed