RE: Resetting %EOF.

[Chris Bipes <rpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Barbara,

I missed those new key words *START & *END.  Do you happen to know when they
were introduced to the language?

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-----Original Message-----
From: bmorris@ca.ibm.com [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:10 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Resetting %EOF.


If you are using RPG IV, it's better to use *START SETLL
to reset to the beginning of the file, and *END SETLL
(not SETGT) to position to end of file.

Reasons:
- *START and *LOVAL don't mean the same thing if you have
  null key fields.  Null keys go first, but won't be
  found with *LOVAL.
- *START is faster than *LOVAL (I just ran a test and it
  was 8 times faster)
- *START makes it clearer what is happening (at least to
  English speakers)

Barbara Morris
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