RE: File status

["Tim Kredlo" <TKredlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

Per the manual: "%STATUS starts with a return value of 00000 and is reset to
00000 before any operation with an 'E' extender specified begins. 

Why do you say that it is only reset on an error?

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:33 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: File status




>
> But shouldn't the status (which indicated EOF) change when I 'ReadP' 
> from the end of file?  (I now have to 'Read' a record to be at EOF')
>

If no error occurs, %status does not get changed.  It only changes when an
error occurs.

Therefore, %status will always reflect that last error that happened. Even
if you've done 200 things since that error happened, %status will be the
last error.

When you attempt to read a record past the end of a file, that's an error,
so %status gets set.  When you read a record normally, it's not an error, so
%status is the same as it was before -- in this example, it's still set to
EOF.

Likewise, if you trapped a divide by zero error, then read a record, %status
would still show the divide by zero error, because it was the last error
that happened.


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