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  3. March 2009

Re: Non-unique keys

Maybe you could make something like this work?

SELECT RRN(a), a.*
FROM yourfile AS a
ORDER BY 1

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James R. Perkins


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 16:33, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

Assuming a keyed PF, non-uniquely keyed, opened as externally-described,
from RPG:
Is there any guarantee that, when reading all the records for a
particular key (starting with a CHAIN for the initial read, and a READE
in a loop for subsequent reads), they'll show up in order of ascending
RRN within those matching the key?

(And no, I didn't design the bloody file!)

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JHHL
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