Re: Looking for gaps in a key sequence -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Looking for gaps in a key sequence
From: Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:00:08 -0500
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If you were on V5R4, it sounds like something recursive SQL could perform.
Given that you must compare one value in sequence to the next (or previous
depending on the algorithm) I don't know a quick way other than reading the
sequence in order. With the proper indexes, runtime should be blazing fast.

--Loyd

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given a key sequence in a file, really just a series of numbers, does
anybody know of an algorithm, other than brute force, for finding gaps
in the sequence?

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