RE: Insert a record

I am about to step into again I bet.

I am unaware of any normal technique for physically inserting a record into
a file.  The only way I can imagine is to completely rewrite the original
file into another file, adding the new record at the appropriate spot in the
process.  If the original file is small enough you can of course load the
whole file into an array at the beginning of the job and then close, clear,
open, and re-load the file at the end of the job.  Manipulating the array
itself becomes a trivial exercise.

So far as I am aware physical files are in fact arrival-sequence files that
may or may not have views of them in some logical ordering schema.

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Booth Martin
Boothm@Goddard.edu
802-454-8315 x235
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-------Original Message-------
From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 09:43:34 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Insert a record
Yes, exactly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@MartinVT.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:39 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Insert a record
"Insert" implies to me that you wish to place the new record in the midst of
existing records?
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Booth Martin
Boothm@Goddard.edu
802-454-8315 x235
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-------Original Message-------
From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 09:21:31 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Insert a record
Is there a way to insert a record into a physical file using the relative
record number?
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