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Can we dynamically increase the size of occurs clause? i.e
In case I an not sure of the size of array and want to
increase the size at run time.If yes , how?

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Can we dynamically increase the size of occurs clause? i.e In case I an not sure of the size of ar..

Answer / lu

yes, ...you declare an array like this:
77 ws-counter pic 9(04) value zeroes.
01 ws-array.
07 ws-field pic x (01) ouccurs 1 to 1000
depending on ws-counter.

Procedure Division.
Perform Read-file until ws-end-of-file = 'y'.
Read-file.
Read file at end
move 'y' to ws-end-of-file.
if ws-end-of-file not = 'y'
add 1 to ws-counter
move aa of file to ws-field (ws-counter).

the maximun is 1000 occurrences and minimun is 1...

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