Rewritten December 2025
Gridmap elements are accessed using the same two-dimensional (row,column) array syntax as for assignments, as in the example below.
dimx $items, gridmap(int; varstr; varstr) ! alphanumeric column key
dimx $table, gridmap(int; int; varstr) ! numeric column key
? $items(row,"SKU")
? $table(15,22)
You can also access the elements sequentially using Gridmap Iteration.
Since gridmaps are conceptually equivalent to files (rows=record numbers, columns=fields), you may want to create wrapper functions to simulate record I/O—i.e., indexing by column values, accessing a row using record.field syntax, etc. See fngridutl.bsi in SOSLIB:[907,10] for a collection of such utility functions.
