How do I force export from within a loop

[Jeff Harrison]

--- John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> Mike,
> 
> This is not correct. If Stuart has explained it that
> way in his book, no
> matter how many times he's reprinted it, he's still
> wrong. A WRITE will in
> no way export a line to an export file. Unless, the
> EXPORT line itself is
> within the loop (getnext or any other kind of loop
> which gets successive
> records) nothing will be added to the export file.
> So, unless you mean
> something else, or Stuart explained it some other
> way, this is just not
> correct.
> 
[snip]

Well, when I first saw this teqnique a few years ago I
also thought that it would not work.  It doesn't seem
to make sense to me.  However, the proof was in the
pudding as they say.  It did work.

It appears to be an undocumented feature... Perhaps an
unintended feature.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com


		
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