Re: ifs follow up read from way back..

Mark,

you're finding out why we moved (years ago) to record based
tables/PFs instead of stream files.

Now, is this data delmited at all by EOL or CRLF characters?
Are there actual "records" of data or is it one big stream?
Is it XML?  If you could give us an idea of the data, maybe
we could help.  But as far as accessing the data in a
"order", nope.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:25:14 -0600
 "Mark A. Manske" <mmanske@minter-weisman.com> wrote:
> I can read my IFS files just fine into my rpg program;
> however I am looking
> for a shortcut,
> which may or may not be there.
>
> Here is what I cannot seem to find : A way to read the
> IFS directory
> "objects" into my program
> in ascending order by file name; it is random,
> The reason I am reading this data in, I need it in order,
> I know I could just write them to a work file, internal
> array, data queue,
> ect -
>  (actual workings are more style and department "warm and
> fuzzies")
> and then read them in the order I want, but I would
> prefer
> to "skip" that step.
>
> So is there a way while reading the IFS to specify the
> order, I am not
> seeing
> anything in the manual, I am either blind, or this is not
> possible.
>
> Can someone clarify whether I am just slow(nice for
> stupid) or just asking
> for more than we have at V4R5.
> (upgrading to V5R1 in January)
> TIA
>
>
> Mark A. Manske
> Fleming CSD - Plymouth Division
> Sr. Project Lead
> http://www.minter-weisman.com
> mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com
>
>
>
>
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Bradley V. Stone
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