Re: Best Way to find duplicate records in same file

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone remember control levels? The cycle? Perfect use for it. Put L1 on 
all the fields. If L1 is *OFF, delete the record. Use primary processing - 
not full-procedural. Get a taste of how easy it used to be.

The "Geezer" strikes again!

Vern

At 01:50 PM 5/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> I'd pick some logical file, any logical file, for that physical, so long as
> it included all fields.
>
> I'd define a data structure externally.  I'd define a field New data
> Like(The Data Structure) and eval it as equal to the new record..
>
> Then I would use the key to do setll/read loop while the key is unchanged.
>
> In the loop if the datastructure equals the new data field, then I'd process
> my duplicate record subroutine.