Mapping Arrays indexing in Crystal Reports formulas and indexes

I just took a Crystal Reports Designer class today and I presented the Array Mapping technique to the instructor. Since he was very interested I decided to post it here, so more people can benefit from it. This is an idea used a lot in C++. I designed a formula using two symmetric arrays. One to hold values to be used to test a condition, and a second one to hold values to be outputted when the condition is found. Since the index in the test values array for a given value to be tested matches the index of return values array of the correspondent output value, this methodology is called index mapping. Here follows the code: //testValues array store values to be tested in the formulaLocal StringVar Array testValues := MakeArray ( "S", "M", "L", "XL"); //returnValues array store values to be returned by the test formulaLocal StringVar Array returnValues := MakeArray ( "Small", "Medial", "Large", "Extra Large", "App Type not Found");Local NumberVar i := 1;Local Numbervar returnIndex := -1; //Loop through the entire array for each values of the fieldWhile i <= Ubound(testValues) AND returnIndex = -1 Do(//Actual test of the values and return bellow If ToText({CUSTOMER.SIZE}, 0) = testValues Then( returnIndex := i;); i := i + 1;); //If any value found return it, else return last value in the return value arrayIf returnIndex = -1 Then returnValues[Ubound(testValues) + 1]Else returnValues[returnIndex] Fell free to email me if you have questions and enjoy the code...

Can you help with the below?
Group on Client/Location, Brokerage Rate, Product
Read all records for a particular group and store each different currency in an array
On change of group display contents of the stored array.
e.g.
Record 1         ABN   AM      FUTURE RATE AGREEMENT       0.012500%      DKK
Record 2         ABN   AM      FUTURE RATE AGREEMENT       0.012500%      EUR
Record 3         ABN   AM      FUTURE RATE AGREEMENT       0.012500%      GBP
Record 4         ABN   AM      FUTURE RATE AGREEMENT       0.012500%      USD
On change of group I would like to display the following
                        ABN   AM      FUTURE RATE AGREEMENT       0.012500%      DKK   EUR    GBP    USD

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