Can a record be SELECTed twice in sort/selection processing?

[Richard Kreiss]

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> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Boaz
Bezborodko
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> Subject: Re: Can a record be SELECTed twice in sort/selection processing?
> 
> "Can not" or "should not"?
> 
> (I'm reworking the program so as to avoid it, but I am now curious...If
> you forced a sort/select program to walk through the records twice (say
> with a lookup to whatever order it goes in to start from the beginning)
> and SELECT the same record twice, will it show up twice to the output
> processing table.  (And, no, Ken, I didn't try it yet.:-)
> 
> Boaz

If one is using associated fields, a record can be selected any number of
times.

As we have not seen the code, is it possible that there is a loop causing
<select> to be run twice on some records?


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
  






> 
> John Esak wrote:
> > No a record can not be selected twice in sort selection. Period. Don't
even
> > try... :-)
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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> > m] On Behalf Of Boaz Bezborodko
> >
> >> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:01 AM
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> >> Subject: Can a record be SELECTed twice in sort/selection processing?
> >>
> >> If a sort/select program somehow sees and selects a record
> >> twice during
> >> it's processing, does that mean that the record will now
> >> appear twice to
> >> the output processing?
> >>
> >> I think this happened in one of my programs, but I'm not sure
> >> if that's
> >> what I'm looking for or not.  An answer to this will help me
> >> nail down
> >> the source of the problem.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Boaz
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