Re: START KEY EQUAL TO

In article <d9s568$22n1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chuck Stevens <charles.stevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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><docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d9s49n$mv6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> ... then unless you have a record on the file with the key of 'ABCDE '
>> (five trailing spaces) my experience tells me that you will get a 23.
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>That may be what actually does happen, but unless I misread the wording in
>the COBOL standards, I don't think that's supposed to be what happens.
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>'74/'85 both say that if the operands are unequal size, comparison proceeds
>as though the longer one was truncated on the right such that its length is
>equal to that of the shorter (START general rule 4).

The operand was equal to itsself, no? KEY = PRIMARY-KEY was what I coded.

[snip]

>Have I misread something? Have I missed something entirely?

Perhaps I should have included a SELECT specifying KEY IS PRIMARY-KEY.

DD

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