Question Grab entire array at once?

[Abe Froman]

Is there a quick way to grab all the elements of an array?

I'm thinking of something using pointers, but not having to walk the node tree. I was guessing that, since the SQLW for extent vars is the length of all the extents put together, they are all stored sequentially at the same memory location. So, maybe I could just grab a SQLW worth of data at the pointer where the first extent begins and I would have the entire array in one string?

I looked around and couldn't find anything on this exactly, so perhaps one of my hopeful assumptions is incorrect.

 

[TomBascom]

What do you mean by "grab"?

Perhaps some sample pseudo-code would be appropriate?

 

[tamhas]

Are you talking SQL? If so, look at PROELEMENT for getting one of an array. Without it, one gets the whole thing.