Re: How to process a file (was: Report enhancements)

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:31:06 GMT

On 2-Nov-2004, l.willms@jpberlin.de (Lueko Willms) wrote:

> Better make it wieldy as the proper structure:
>
> READ file NEXT RECORD
> PERFORM UNTIL has-found-EOF IN FILE-STATUS-file
> OR filekey > key-limit
> do-your-processing-of-that-record
> READ file NEXT RECORD
> END-PERFORM

I remember people teaching that we shouldn't have multiple READ commands. But
the above structure is so easy, so clean, and so simple that it I have ignored
them for decades.

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