Wow, thanks Dan - this will be great if I can get it working. Can you stomach some dumb noob follow-up questions?
0001 OPEN 'SOURCE' TO source_file ELSE STOP > 0002 OPEN 'DESTINATION' TO destination_file ELSE STOP > 0003 IF SYSTEM(11) ELSE CRT 'SAVE-LIST required from SOURCE file > sorted by ID'; STOP > 0004 LOOP > 0005 READNEXT source_id ELSE EXIT > 0006 READ source_rec FROM source_file, source_id THEN > 0007 destination_id = source_rec<1> ;* assumes the data us in > attribute 1 > > *** Got this far and didn't know what to use for the destination ID - I am > creating a new file, how do I establish the destination ID? I know the > source file record label and ID from existing documentation, but I don't > know how to set the ID and record label in a new file. > > And the data from the source file that will end up the record key in the > destination file in is in attribute 29 - so I assume I should use > source_rec<29> > instead of source_rec<1> here? > > 0008 IF destination_id # '' THEN > 0009 READ destination_rec FROM destination_file, > destination_id ELSE destination_rec = '' > > *** Same issue - how do I establish the destination_rec label in a new > file I create? > > 0010 destination_rec<1,-1> = source_id ;* assumes you > want the data in attribute 1 > > *** I want the unique values for attribute 29 in the source going into > attribute 0 - the record key - in the destination, and attribute 0 from the > source multivalued in attribute 1 in the destination. Is this line placing > source 0 in destination 1? If so, then yes, I want the data in attribute 1. > > 0011 WRITE destination_rec ON destination_file, > destination_id > 0012 END > 0013 END > 0014 REPEAT > > Thanks! -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
