Re: Best Way to find duplicate records in same file

GO CYCLE PROCESSING!!!!

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


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Anyone remember control levels? The cycle? Perfect use for it. Put L1 on
all the fields. If L1 is *OFF, delete the record. Use primary processing -
not full-procedural. Get a taste of how easy it used to be.

The "Geezer" strikes again!

Vern

At 01:50 PM 5/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I'd pick some logical file, any logical file, for that physical, so long
as
>it included all fields.
>
>I'd define a data structure externally.  I'd define a field New data
>Like(The Data Structure) and eval it as equal to the new record..
>
>Then I would use the key to do setll/read loop while the key is unchanged.
>
>In the loop if the datastructure equals the new data field, then I'd
process
>my duplicate record subroutine.
>


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