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Re: How to reliably determine total pages

On 10/21/2014 11:30 AM, Alan Shore wrote:
From past experience - I have found that there is no reliable formula to calculate what you are wanting
If this is a MUST - here is what I have done
Execute the logic twice but using a switch
The first time through, the switch is set off. Nothing is actually printed, but line counts, page counts are incremented as if it was
Save the page count
The second time through, the switch is set on to print the spool file, the line count is incremented as well as the page count the of page is the saved page count

Another way I've used is to generate the spooled file with a place
holder in the output that looks like 'Page 123456 of nnnnn' where the
123456 is the actual page number as generated by the RPG PAGE reserved
word. Once the spooled file is generated, copy it to a PF with CPYSPLF
and with another program, scan the spooled file for the place holder and
replace the nnnnn with the actual total page count. Then CPYF the PF
back to a spooled file.


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