Re: Declare a key on a subfile... is it possible?

I'm sorry if I stepped on your toes Scott, but I was replying to your
answer of making the DIM size equal to the SFLPAGE size. YOUR response was
WRONG for HIS question and I (as well as others) gave the reason why.

Alan


                                                                       
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> Sorry Scott - definitely NOT feasible.
> If I'm loading a page at a time
> SFLSIZE = SFLPAGE = 15

This question was originally asked by Charles St-Laurent.  Maybe I'm
missing something, but...  that's not you, is it, Alan?

The question was if it's possible to put a key on a subfile so he can
check if there's already a record there with the same zip code.  That ALSO
wouldn't work in a page-at-a-time scenario, because the key would only
view the current page (if such a thing existed, which it doesn't.)

Not only that, the array idea WOULD work with a single page load (whereas
the key-on-the-subfile technique wouldn't) as long as the total file size
is less than 32767.  You simply wouldn't clear the array for each page.
You'd only clear it when loading the first page.

With all due respect, if I try to help someone else, don't tell me that my
suggestion is bad because it doesn't match YOUR requirements.  If you have
your own question, feel free to ask it, but my message was in regards to
Charles' question, not a question that was in your mind that you didn't
even ask.
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