Arrays and the .Net Base Cass Library
Carrying on from the previous blog, the user of iterators in .Net and especially .Net on COBOL can be very useful.
When CLR v2.0 was introduced a few new methods in System.IO.File for block reading/writing files were introduced, these works on arrays aka “OCCURS ANY” fields. Using these APIs instead of using traditional line sequentials is a breath of fresh air, especially if you just want to do some code something quickly without the need of records/group items.
So lets.. have a little play around, lets read a “MonthNames” from the CLR, write them to disk, read them back, reverse and sort it, while display them…
01 Months string occurs 12.
01 Month string.
*> Note: the MonthsNames has 13 elements and the last element is ""
*> and I'm not interested it it so I'll drop it by doing a "ConstrainedCopy"
*> with just elements I'm interested in.
*> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo.monthnames.aspx
set Months-Array to type "System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo"::"CurrentInfo"::"MonthNames"
invoke type "System.Array"::"ConstrainedCopy"(Months-Array, 0, Months, 0, Months::"Length")
display Months::"Length"
perform varying Month through Months
display "Normal -> " Month
end-perform
*> Write the array to disk
invoke type "System.IO.File"::"WriteAllLines"("MyMonths.txt", Months)
set Months to null
*> Read it back
set Months to type "System.IO.File"::"ReadAllLines"("MyMonths.txt")
*> Reverse it
invoke type "System.Array"::"Reverse"(Months as Type "System.Array")
*> Display it
perform varying Month through Months
display "Reverse -> " Month
end-perform
*> Sort it
invoke type "System.Array"::"Sort"(Months as type "System.Array")
*> Display it
perform varying Month through Months
display "Sorted -> " Month
end-perform
Which when executed gives us:
Normal -> January
Normal -> February
Normal -> March
Normal -> April
Normal -> May
Normal -> June
Normal -> July
Normal -> August
Normal -> September
Normal -> October
Normal -> November
Normal -> December
Reverse -> December
Reverse -> November
Reverse -> October
Reverse -> September
Reverse -> August
Reverse -> July
Reverse -> June
Reverse -> May
Reverse -> April
Reverse -> March
Reverse -> February
Reverse -> January
Sorted -> April
Sorted -> August
Sorted -> December
Sorted -> February
Sorted -> January
Sorted -> July
Sorted -> June
Sorted -> March
Sorted -> May
Sorted -> November
Sorted -> October
Sorted -> September
That was pretty easy… and the code looks okay too… can’t be bad…
References : System.Globalization.DatetimeFormat
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In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.
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Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?
I intend to write more stuff, do you have any specific area’s of interest?
I glad it made sense after you re-read it… I will sincerly try to explain more as I go… I am just a “junior” blogger… sort of learning on my feet..