Matching Record (Was Need Help)

[cmassoglia@xxxxxxxxxxx (Charlie Massoglia)]

>>Now I am curious:  Aside from all of the laughing about Dave's
>>punishments, how efficient is MR logic?  Is it fast? Effective? Compared
>>to what?
>>
>>In <199708022227.SAA28481@vixa.voyager.net>, on 08/02/97
>>   at 06:27 PM, cmassoglia@voyager.net (Charlie Massoglia) said:
>>
>>
Matching record actually does have some value.
>>
>>
CAUTION:  TO AVOID BITING CRITICISM, MAKE SURE YOU DELETE THE SOURCE FOR
>>
THIS PROGRAM WHEN YOU ARE DONE SO NOONE WILL KNOW YOU USED MATCHING
>>
RECORD LOGIC!!!
>>
>>
Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
>
Paul E Musselman said:
>
>Matching record logic is very effective compared to fussing with a program
>to do all that logic by hand.
>
>If all you are doing is reading the files sequentially with a match, the
>most important thing that I always tried to remember is that all of the
>files you are matching are read in key sequence as if they were sorted
>together by match fields into 1 long file.
>
With keys of equal value from the primary file first and the secondary file
second.

Trivia question:  Does anyone remember the difference between the following:

FFILE1  IPEAE             DISK
FFILE2  ISEAE             DISK

and

FFILE3  IPEAE             DISK
FFILE4  IS AE             DISK

and

FFILE5  IP AE             DISK
FFILE6  ISEAE             DISK

Is anyone up for a "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Matching
Record Logic But Nobody Told You" RPG IV session at COMMON?


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net


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