Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:13:33 -0800
Reply-To:     "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
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From:         "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Array use?
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Shoot the person who designed your data set.

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Subject: Re: Array use?

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> This is great and works, but
> what if one of the fields that has to be in array is in different
> format than the other, for example: ID1 is character but another field
> is Date which is Date9. and another field Price which is numeric....
> How do i put them all in one array?  or how can I do two seperate
> arrays for one dataset?  Thank you- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
But the statements bellow do not work
 array a_ID(*) $ ID1-ID10; (character)
array b_ID(*)  ID1-ID10; (numeric)
Error message: All variables in array list must be the same type,
i.e., all numeric or character.