RE: Numeric search on Phone number

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Hayes wrote:

>I am finishing up my last program as part of a 
>group project at school.  The problem is being 
>able to search a phone number by 1 or all 10 
>digits of a phone number. E.g., if the user 
>types 708 the user should see all of the
>708 and above.
>
>I know there are some very smart programmers 
>who know how to solve this.

If I may very gently suggest that you'll get more out of your homework if
you do it yourself.  <g>  Assuming that you have hit the textbook, asked the
teacher and your group for advice and looked at the manuals and are still
stuck, here are some hints:  Logical file keyed by phone number; SETLL and
READ opcodes.  These should be in the index of any AS/400 book, and you'll
get hits in several AS/400 manuals.  Look at http://www.as400.ibm.com follow
the "library" link.

You'll need to understand these concepts (in any language) in order to do
business programming.  Don't skimp on your education - I sure wish I'd had
formal training!  I estimate that formal training would have made me as good
a programmer as I am now (21 years in the field) in under 5 years.

Regards,
Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY

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