Re: FEOD followed by Setll

Try *start instead of *hival


----- Original Message -----
From: "alan" <steelville@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: FEOD followed by Setll


> <snip>
> Write file
> FEOD
> *hival Setll file
> Read file
> %eof is set immediately.
> </end snip>
>
> Martin,
>
> I would suspect that the FEOD does indeed set the %eof
> indicator, but that the SETLL does not. This makes sense to
> me, and sounds to me like it *should* work this way. For
> example in the following scenario (in a "normal"
> ascending-order-keyed file):
>
> keyfield setgt FileA
>
> At this point, the program *should not* know whether it is
> at the end of the file yet or not. But at the next attempt
> at input in this scenario, the status of the file will be
> set at %EOF.
>
> It does make you do a double-take though.
>
> But curiosity drives me to ask, Why do an FEOD and then
> re-position the file?
>
> - Alan
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saunders, Martin P" <martin.saunders@xxxxxxxx>
>
> | Hi Booth,
> |
> | I read that bit in the manual ('you must reposition the
> file'), I thought
> | that is what the SETLL would do.
> |
> | BTW: to the other people who replied: thanks for the
> suggestion but the
> | reason I am using *HIVAL is because the file is keyed
> descending.  Reading
> | the file in this way in a separate program works fine.
> |
> | Thanks
> |
> | Martin
>
>
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