Re: File keyed on a date field: the read doesn't actually get anything! What am I doing wrong? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: File keyed on a date field: the read doesn't actually get anything! What am I doing wrong?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:10:29 -0800
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On 1/7/26 12:49 PM, Brian Parkins wrote:

We'd need to see a little more code to be able to help, James - to avoid make incorrect assumptions.

Ok. It took me some time to make that happen, given that list servers don't like attachments, and RPG code tends to get mangled when emailed as text. It would probably be easier if I had experience on a code-sharing platform.

You can find it on my personal web site, at

https://members.toast.net/JHHL/test07jan26.txt

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JHHL

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