Re: LookAhead

[Tim Truax <truax@xxxxxxxxx>]

James W. Kilgore wrote:
> With all good intentions, I would like to ask what you are trying to get
> at instead of telling you how to keep doing what you are most familiar
> with.  As you stated, it's not available to externally described files,
> so let's get to where you want and avoid program described files, if we
> can.

James,
Here's what I am doing, I am reading EDI data like below.

ST*265                                 <--Here is the beginning of data
collection.
BGN*1111*2222*****123**Pittsburgh*PA      for record output.
REF*CR*1009999*987
REF*VN*1111****22222000***
ST*197                                 <--- When I LookAhead and see
this next UNRELATED 
BSR*100000***PA                             record, I output at this
point the previous
                                            4 records field information.
Everything in this job is variable, the number of records between the
ST*xxx records therefore when I look ahead and see the next start
sequence about to come in (I do not want the fields to come into my
program and then overwrite my fields being held from the previous ST*xxx
record.
Gee.. I hope you can understand my wording.
Let me know what you think, and thanks.
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