RE: Member Names

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel Fritz wrote:

>Not that I detest fast acting code or anything <g>, 
>but how much faster can I retrieve all of the 
>member names in, say, a 100 member file by 
>using the API?  

Good point.  The APIs are generally very fast compared to system utilities.
I haven't personally benchmarked QULSMBR vs. DSPFD though.

The API has one big advantage over DSPFD OUTFILE() - the API's returned data
format is guaranteed not to change.  The outfile offers no such guarantee.
With the new database features that have arrived (more on the way!) this
should be a consideration.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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