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Re: RPG-ILE Service Pgm and Opening/Closing Files

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:56 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, which is why I generally set a flag when I open a file in a
procedure and only close the file if that flag is set.

if not %open(FILE);
open FILE;
FILEopen = *on;
endif;

// do stuff

if FILEopen;
close FILE;
endif;

david


I don't understand the need for the open flag. It seems redundant with the
%open() BIF.


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