RE: Last Record in Sequential File

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Manuals? I use "The Modern RPG IV Language"  :)

-Bob Cozzi
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- Mario Andretti

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:49 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Last Record in Sequential File

"Wilt, Charles" wrote:
> 
> I believe you:
> 
> 1) have a blank in position 34 of the F-spec
> 2) SETGT *HIVAL MYFILE
> 3) READP MYFILE
> 

Better to use SETLL with *START or *END than *LOVAL SETLL and *HIVAL
SETGT.  It's more obvious what's the code is doing.  Also, if you have a
keyed files that might contain null values, you don't necessarily get
the first or last record with *LOVAL and *HIVAL.

Bob is right. *START and *END have been there from the beginning for RPG
IV, but if I recall correctly, they weren't documented in the first
release(s?) of the manual.

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