Delete command...

[Kenneth Brody]

Nancy Palmquist wrote:
[...]
> DELETE is a peculiar as far as commands go.  It is not executed at the
> time it is issued.  It is held in reserve and when you finally do an END
> or ESCAPE or whatever makes the end of the record processing happen and
> you are about to go to the next record, then the DELETE is done.
> 
> So you could put DELETE on line 1, continue to process for 400 lines and
> when it got to the END of your logic, then the record is DELETED, not
> before.
[...]

Just to further clarify, this applies to DELETE by itself (ie: delete the
current record, which you are currently in the middle of updating) as
opposed to "DELETE lookupname", which will delete the lookup record as
soon as it's executed.

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