Re: Retrieving member names

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:28 08/04/98 -0400, Loyd Goodbar wrote:
>In CL, how do I retrieve a list of database member names? I'm creating a
>command that uses members, and I'm trying to determine whether the
>member exists. The hitch is I'm allowing *FIRST or *LAST for the member
>name, but CHKOBJ doesn't allow *LAST as a member parameter. So, do I use
>CHKOBJ or is there another way?

Loyd,

Use the RTVMBRD command. It not only allows *FIRST and *LAST (creation order), 
but also *FIRSTMBR and *LASTMBR (alphabetic). You can also set the member name 
to the last value retrieved and specify *NEXT or *PRV as a relationship to that 
name. You can even specify a generic name. The member name is returned in the 
(what else) RTNMBR parameter. If you're going to use the *NEXT or *PRV 
keywords, start with *FIRSTMBR or *LASTMBR, as it seems these keywords seem to 
work alphabetically.

hth
Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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