Rules for deducing the dependency between string and array parameters are
as follows:
- Look for any dependencies between parameters - the parameter names
length and count always show dependencies but they are not the only
ones. You must read the parameter descriptions to be sure.
- When you have found a dependency, check whether the item it describes
is numerical or a character string.
- If there is one dependency, it is the number of elements in a
one-dimensional array for numbers, or the length for a character
string.
- If there is more than one dependency:
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- For numerical parameters: The number of dependencies specifies the
number of dimensions; the first item in the list becomes the number of
elements in the first dimension, the second item becomes the number of
elements in the second dimension, and so on.
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- For string parameters: The number of dependencies is one more than the
number of dimensions of the array. The last dependency is the length
of each of the strings in the array. Prior dependencies specify the
number of elements in each dimension.
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GDDM V3R2 Base Application Programming Reference
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