[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] How to matches two records using ENTRY in progress 4GL?

[Thiru Malai]

I have written a program for matching two records. If its matching then i need to have a message "Matched" but the problem here is I don't get any idea about how to matching. Let me share my program

DEFINE VARIABLE cPos AS INTEGER NO-UNDO.
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tt_data NO-UNDO
FIELD cPosition AS CHARACTER FORMAT "X(60)"
FIELD cEndCode AS CHARACTER
FIELD cShotCode AS CHARACTER.

CREATE tt_data.
ASSIGN
tt_data.cPosition ="S$$$^^^^^^^^^^$$$^^^MC^^^^^^^^^^^^R^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"
tt_data.cEndCode = 10
tt_data.cShotCode = "S".

CASE tt_data.cEndCode:

WHEN 10 THEN DO:
cPos = 1.
END.

WHEN 20 THEN DO:
cPos = 2.
END.
.
.
.
WHEN 600 THEN DO:
cPos = 60
END.

END CASE.

FIND FIRST tt_date WHERE tt_data.cShotCode = SUBSTRING(tt_data.cPosition,cPos,1) NO-LOCK NO-ERROR.

DISPLAY tt_data.cShotCode. /* Displayed Value is S */


If you see tt_datacEndCode value is 10 which means its pointing ENTRY 1 of tt_data.cPosition (i.e. S).

When 20 then its for ENTRY 2 like wise i want to get up to 600 (i.e. tt_datacEndCode = 60).

The problem here is I cannot have WHEN statement up to 600. So Could you please help this case?

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