RECORD OF * EXISTS

[stewm@canada.com]

Thanks for that new documentation.  I was trying to
emulate IF ACCESSOK and at the same time try to specify
which file I wanted to check against.  As you know the
IF ACCESSOK applies to the last GET/OPT.  I wanted to
check the access on a previous GET/OPT.

Mark

Two syntax issues in one day! This one's really cute.
Although the words are
the same, the meaning is totally different. In QDESIGN,
RECORD is short for
RECORDLOCATION which takes "OF file" as an argument.
Note that in QUIZ/QTP,
there is no OF so the syntax is not quite the same. Now
the EXISTS is the
equivalent of saying NOT NULL, as in a relational NULL.
So the full syntax
would be 

IF RECORDLOCATION OF FILE_ABC EXISTS

or

IF RECORDLOCATION  OF FILE_ABC NOT NULL

In QDESIGN, the equivalent of IF RECORD file EXISTS is
IF ACCESSOK.

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