Re: Resetting %EOF.

[Anton Gombkötö <Gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops,

i was so keen on testing it and spreading the news that i forgot to say
this:

Thanks Barbara, that's one of the reasons to love this list!

Chris, thanks to you, too!

:-)

Anton Gombkötö
Vienna, Austria, Europe, a small planet (for which IBM has the solutions...
:-)

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Chris Bipes" <rpg@cross-check.com>
An: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Mai 2000 15:56
Betreff: RE: Resetting %EOF.


> Thanks Barbara,
>
> I missed those new key words *START & *END.  Do you happen to know when
they
> were introduced to the language?
>
> Christopher K. Bipes mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
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> If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
> Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000
>
>
> -----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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