I'm working on a program that has to copy a block of records within a
file. That is to say, given a block of records, in the file FROBOZZ,
with keys:
foobar 15 1
foobar 15 2
foobar 15 3
foobar 15 4
foobar 15 5
I want to duplicate the records, still in FROBOZZ, keyed as:
bozbar 7 1
bozbar 7 2
bozbar 7 3
bozbar 7 4
bozbar 7 5
or, conceivably, if there's already a "bozbar 7 1," the copies might be
keyed as "bozbar 7 2" through "bozbar 7 6."
I don't relish the thought of having to keep track of the position from
which I'm reading records. Can I have the FROBOZZ physical file open
twice within an RPG program? Or is there an easier way to do this?
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