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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this
sequential file randomly in my program ?

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / srinivas.d

you cannot randomly acces in sequential files..

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / guest

Harish ,

What is "KEY-FILE1" ?
Anyhow - you are still reading file sequentially ? arnn't
you ?

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / sruthi

we can do that by using tables means arrays concept.
we can use search all for that

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / jack

Read seq. file and store it in tables means arrays.
We can use 'seach all' for random access.

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / mohan

Guys, i suppose that we need to use Arrays concept along
with Subscript or Index concept to access a record in a
sequential file.

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / santhosh

write a temporary index file defining unique key, move the
sequential file to that temp index file and access the temp.
index file randomly

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / lu

Hi Guys,
when you say "sequential" it means you have to read from 1
to 9999...Never say sequential file and read randomly !!!!!
use read util the field you want....
Perform 100-read until ws-field = 'yes'.......

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I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ..

Answer / harish

YS WE CANT ACCESS FLAT FILE RANDOMLY

IF WE WANT TO ACCESS PARTICULAR RECORD



PROCEDURE DIVISION.

MOVE KEYFIELD VALUE TO W-S VARIABLE
PERFORN UNTIL W-FLAG = 'Y'
READ FILE1 AT END MOVE 'Y' TO W-FLAG
NOT AT END
IF KEY-FILE1 = WS-KEY-VARIABLE
MOVE--------

ELSE
MOVE 'Y' TO W-FLAG.

pls correct me if anything wrong

HARISH POOMGAME SHIVAPPA(hassan,karnataka)
NIIT TECHNOLOGY
KOLKATA

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