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about WRITE statement

Postby leon » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:29 am

question describ as following:
writing a record to a sequential file: write out-record from ws-out-record.
does it need the same size (record length) for out-record and ws-out-record,
if out-record<ws-out-record then what's happen?
if out-record>ws-out-record then wha't happen?
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Re: about WRITE statement

Postby dick scherrer » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:32 am

Hello,

Technicaly, they do not have to be the same size. Having said that - make them the same size ;)

If they are not the same size either truncation (sending area longer) or blank padding (sending area shorter) will occur.
Hope this helps,
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Re: about WRITE statement

Postby leon » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:36 am

thank you very much!
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Re: about WRITE statement

Postby dick scherrer » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:58 am

You're welcome :)

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