Re: Reading/Chaining into a DS, and RNF0202

[Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the only reason I have used them is a slightly broader-based
reason.  If you have two files, with the same record format, therefore
the same field names, and therefore the same buffers in your program,
sometimes you want to read a record from each file, and maintain the
two sets of data, for comparisons, or anything else.  READing,
CHAINing, etc. to a DS preserves the contents of the file buffer.  I
am certain there are more reasons that this.  Anybody?


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:18:19 -0500, Justin Houchin
<justinh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would comparing fields from one file to another be the only reason to
> read an external file into a data structure?  If not, could someone give
>   some other examples on why you would do this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin



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