I've been trying to extract and sort some records where
a character form date field (Dyyyyddd) is found at two
different positions in the input record, depending on some
indicator in a fix position elsewhere.
I thought I could
1.) copy the date field to the beginning of each record
using INREC IFTHEN OVERLAY and then
2.) INCLUDE only records within a specific date range by
referring to the field overlaid by 1.)
I do need the date field at the beginning later on, so I
need to do the INREC processing anyway.
It seems that INCLUDE is processing the records before INREC
is modifying them. (My INCLUDE just did not seem to select
what I wanted it to).
Does anyone know for sure the order of INCLUDE vs. INREC?
The manual only says that INREC can modify records before they
are sorted, merged or copied.
--
Peter Hunkeler
CREDIT SUISSE
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