RECORD OF * EXISTS

[stewm@canada.com]

I think I'll go with setting a few flags.  

Thanks,

Mark

> 
> What you probably want to do is, right after the
access
> of the previous
> GET/OPT, do your "if accessok" and set a flag
> accordingly. You can then use
> that flag anywhere down the line.
> 
> Dirk Rohde
> VantagePoint Systems Inc.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stewm@canada.com [mailto:stewm@canada.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:38 AM
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: RE: RECORD OF * EXISTS
> 
> 
> 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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