Delete command...

[Nancy Palmquist]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thank you Ken,  You are absolutely right and I had forgotten to qualify
my answer completely.  

Nancy

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