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From: WishList@2600.com (Technobabble)
Subject: Re: access type referencing nested array element
Date: 1998/09/19
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Date: 1998-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
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Greetings Dale,

> > Anyone know the syntax for referencing an array element (record) from an
> > access type pointing to an array of records ?
> 
> 
> 
>    XYZ (5).a -- implicit dereferencing
>    XYZ.all (5).a -- explicit dereferencing
> 
> 
> Dale

Ok, that means that if XYZ is a pointer to array of records, I can simply
use the pointer with the array index eg. (5) to access the 5th record. 
Now if I want to get the address of the 5th record would this be correct:

type xyz is access xyz_rec;

XYZ_POINTER := XYZ (5)'access;

????

thanks.
Richmond