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Charlie Massoglia wrote: > > >>Now I am curious: Aside from all of the laughing about Dave's > >>punishments, how efficient is MR logic? Is it fast? Effective? Compared > >>to what? > >> > >>In <199708022227.SAA28481@vixa.voyager.net>, on 08/02/97 > >> at 06:27 PM, cmassoglia@voyager.net (Charlie Massoglia) said: > >> > >>Matching record actually does have some value. > >> > >>CAUTION: TO AVOID BITING CRITICISM, MAKE SURE YOU DELETE THE SOURCE FOR > >>THIS PROGRAM WHEN YOU ARE DONE SO NOONE WILL KNOW YOU USED MATCHING > >>RECORD LOGIC!!! > >> > >>Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc. > > > Paul E Musselman said: > > > >Matching record logic is very effective compared to fussing with a program > >to do all that logic by hand. > > > >If all you are doing is reading the files sequentially with a match, the > >most important thing that I always tried to remember is that all of the > >files you are matching are read in key sequence as if they were sorted > >together by match fields into 1 long file. > > > With keys of equal value from the primary file first and the secondary file > second. > > Trivia question: Does anyone remember the difference between the following: > > FFILE1 IPEAE DISK > FFILE2 ISEAE DISK Program will process both files completely before ending. > > and > > FFILE3 IPEAE DISK > FFILE4 IS AE DISK Program will end after processing all records from primary file, even if there are records in secondary file with higher match field values. > and > > FFILE5 IP AE DISK > FFILE6 ISEAE DISK The reverse of the previous one - program will end after all records have been processed from secondary file even if there are still records unprocessed from Primary file that have match field values higher than last record in secondary file. > Is anyone up for a "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Matching > Record Logic But Nobody Told You" RPG IV session at COMMON? > Sounds like fun - especially if it's a BOF held a little while after CUDS has opened. -- ... Neil Palmer AS/400~~~~~ ... NxTrend Technology -Canada ____________ ___ ~ ... Markham, Ontario, Canada |OOOOOOOOOO| ________ o|__||= ... Phone: (905) 731-9000 x238 |__________|_|______|_|______) ... url:http://www.NxTrend.com oo oo oo oo OOOo=o\ ... mailto:NPalmer@NxTrend.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the Midrange System Mailing List! To submit a new message, * * send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". To unsubscribe from * * this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify * * 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. Questions * * should be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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