RE: EOF

["Colpaert, Peter" <Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And if someone adds an exsr after the read, and there is file i/o in that subroutine, you're toast...


Peter Colpaert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: vrijdag 20 november 2009 14:26
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Subject: RE: EOF
>
> <snip>
> This will work today, but as someone pointed out, as soon as someone
> adds
> another I/O, the routine becomes toast.
>
> I prefer to use my own indicator.  This will produce a considerably
> more
> stable application.  See the semi-pseudo code:
>
> DoU noMoreRecords ;
>    Select ;
>       When cond1 ;
>          Read file1 ;
>          noMoreRecords = %EOF(file1) ;
>       when cond2 ;</snip>
>
> not true.  if the new I/O is just adding a new file in a WHEN condition
> it
> will still work as designed without a problem.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tommy Holden
>
>
>
> From:   "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'"
> <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   11/20/2009 07:21 AM
> Subject:        RE: EOF
> Sent by:        rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> > Will the test on EOF work correctly ? Will it be on if either of the
> 3
> > files is at condition %EOF ? Do I need to check EOF for each file?
> >
> > Does an indicator EOF exist for all 3 files plus another that
> indicates
> > any of the files?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Select
> >     when cond1;
> >     read file1;
> >
> >     when cond1;
> >     read file2;
> >
> > etc
> >     other;
> >      read file3;
> >
> > EndSl;
> >
> > IF %EOF;
> >     etc
>
> This will work today, but as someone pointed out, as soon as someone
> adds
> another I/O, the routine becomes toast.
>
> I prefer to use my own indicator.  This will produce a considerably
> more
> stable application.  See the semi-pseudo code:
>
> DoU noMoreRecords ;
>    Select ;
>       When cond1 ;
>          Read file1 ;
>          noMoreRecords = %EOF(file1) ;
>       when cond2 ;
>
> Etc.
> Dennis Lovelady
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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