Re: Record name the same as the file name -- RPG400-L

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rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I know that, with DDS, you always make the record format name different than the file name. I know that, with SQL, it defaults to making the record format name the same as the file name. I further know there are tricks to renaming the record format name. (These often involve naming the file what you want the record format name to be and then renaming the file after the fact.) I know that you can use a file level keyword to rename the record format name. However, why should we have to go through these tricks and shouldn't the compiler just be modified to get over it?

Rob Berendt

If you code:

READ SOMENAME;

are you doing a read by file name or a read by record name?

Hmmm, I suppose if there's only one record format in the file anyways, then that shouldn't make much of a difference. The compiler would need some serious convincing, but it should be possible to make this work. The main implementation hurdle in the compiler is that file names and record names occupy the same name space in the symbol table. And when you refer to SOMENAME in the code, in some places it should refer to the file name and in others to the record name.

I'll add this to our list of proposed future enhancements. No promises, though.

Cheers! Hans

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