RE: When is %EOF not an %EOF

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only real difference is that you'd choose ReadE and I wouldn't. Let me
explain why I no longer use READE.
 
My experience with readE is that its a pig. (It cost me a milkshake to
become a believer.) I felt the clarity of coding overwhelmed any difference
in performance that might occur. An experienced programmer asked me to
change a subfile program I'd written with READE. He asked me to change it to
READ. The difference in performance in filling the subfile was eye-popping.
It went from being barely acceptable to sub-second response. I was more than
happy to buy a couple of milkshakes.
 
 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:49:47
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: When is %EOF not an %EOF
 
Booth;
 
I would code it this way;
 
key SetLL FileName
key ReadE FileName
 
DoW Not %Eof(FileName)
....
key ReadE FileName
EndDo
 
 
Duane