how will you handle it in case of several hundreds of files? especially if you don't have the fixed list of files but you want to open any file that is coming by the calling program.
On Jun 1, 2:32 am, Brad Burleson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sometimes it is not good idea to keep uncontrolled the size of the > > supporting dynamic array with file names that is used to locate the > > position of the file. > > Of course... this probably sounds stupid, but I prefer to simply > maintain a set of equates for each file position, along with a > dimensioned array with the actual file names in it. > > Something like this: > > ===file COMMON.FILES===> > EQU customer TO 1 > EQU invoice TO 2 > [...] > > filenames = "CUSTOMER": @AM : "INVOICE" : @AM : [...] > > DIM files(20) > DIM item.ids(20) > DIM records(20) > [...] > <===end file COMMON.FILES=== > > Then, to use the array, it's something like: > > READ records(customer) FROM files(customer),item.ids(customer) ELSE > records(customer) = "" > > Of course you have to have a routine called OPEN.FILES that runs thru > the files in "filenames" and opens each one in order. > > It does take a bit of planning up-front but it's pretty simple and has > worked well for me. > > Just a thought. > > Brad. -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
