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<h1 class="topictitle1">Logic flow of processing a list of entries</h1>
<div><p>This topic shows you what a logic flow looks like when you process
a list containing multiple entries.</p>
<div class="section"><pre> *------------------------*
| |
| Initialize the next |
| entry with 'Where |
| the list begins' |
*------------*-----------*
|
V
*------------------------*
| |
| Have all of the | YES
*-------&gt;| entries been *-------*
| | processed? | |
| *------------*-----------* *
| |NO List is
| V complete
| *------------------------*
| | |
| | Access the entry. Use |
| | the next entry value |
| | as an index. |
| *-----------*------------*
| |
| V
| *------------------------*
| | Process |
| | the |
| | entry |
| | |
| *------------*-----------*
| |
| V
| *------------------------*
| | |
| | Add the length of |
| | each entry |
| | to the next entry |
| *------------*-----------*
| |
| V
| *------------------------*
| | Add 1 to a count of |
| | how many have |
| | been processed |
| | |
| *------------*-----------*
| |
| |
*---------------------*
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<p>It is important from an upward compatibility viewpoint to use
the offset, length of each entry, and the number of entries rather than hard
coding the values in your program.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="listUserSpace.htm" title="The list APIs require a user space for returning information.">User spaces for list APIs</a></div>
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