Loop on update

["Jeff L. Love" <jllove@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a file that contains two fields and twelve records. Field 1 =
Month & Field 2 = Status. I have found that when I read a record and do
an update with no actual change to the data every thing is fine. But, if
the data in the status field is changed then the program will not move
off of the record it just updated. It will read month 4 over and over
again incrementing the status counter. Why is this? Why would it not
update the record and then read month 5? 

 

     C     UpdHdr        BegSr

 

     C                   Read      MRFBSH1P

     C                   Dow       Not %Eof(MRFBSH1P)

 

     C                   If        h_Month = 4

     C                   Eval      h_Status += 1

     C                   EndIf

 

     C                   Update    MRFBSH1R

 

     C                   Read      MRFBSH1P

     C                   EndDo

 

     C                   EndSr

 

 

 

Jeff Love 

Programmer / Analyst

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