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I >think< the need for this has passed, so I am just wanting to know if there is a more efficient way to do this.
I needed to create a list of numbers. The range was from 2000 - 2999. Each number generated had to be checked against another file to ensure it had not already been used.
What I did: Ran a query over an account file, to get the initial numbers. Converted the number to a string, extracted four characters and added six blanks. Grouped the result and wrote to a file. Then, a second query joined this file to the control file where the join field was also 10 characters. This was a query where data was not in primary file. Wrote the results to a file.
Questions:
1) What would an SQL statement look like to accomplish the same thing?
2) How would I get the results into a file? I have read this somewhere, before, but don't know how to search effectively for it in the archives.
Again, the need may be no more. I just want to do this in a more direct manner in the future.
John McKee
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