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

[John Esak]

You can use PRINT on the sort/select table?  What does it print? The form
isn't loaded yet...

J 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken white [mailto:kenwhite at verizon.net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:47 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Subject: Re: Can a record be SELECTed twice in sort/selection 
> processing?
> 
> print; print in his code, would make it  "appear" twice
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:22 PM
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Subject: RE: Can a record be SELECTed twice in sort/selection 
> processing?
> 
> > No, sorry, just using the DELETING metaphor to give you a 
> ... well... a
> > metaphor.
> >
> > I used to work for the comapny... I've seen the source 
> code.  it can not
> > possibly select a record more than once.  That is, unless, 
> as I stated you
> > are involving associated fields.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >  _____
> >
> > From: Boaz Bezborodko [mailto:boaz at mirrotek.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:06 PM
> > To: john at valar.com
> > Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Re: Can a record be SELECTed twice in 
> sort/selection processing?
> >
> >
> > I'm not trying to do this, I just know that on at least two 
> occasions a
> > record was processed twice and I found a situation where it 
> just might 
> > have
> > been possible for the record to be selected twice.
> >
> > I'm not sure that it works like "DELETING a record twice" 
> since I think it
> > works more on the basis of building a table of records to 
> run through 
> > during
> > output processing rather than flagging a record to be processed.
> >
> > If it builds a table then it might be able to SELECT a 
> record twice and 
> > have
> > the record placed in the table twice.  Ken probably knows if this is
> > possible or not.
> >
> > Boaz
> >
> > John Esak wrote:
> >
> > No it is completely impossible. Think along the lines of 
> DELETING a record
> > twice.  There is no meaning to it.  I think you might be 
> trying to get at
> > associated field records or something... but they would each select
> > individually... and there is no real need to select a 
> record more than 
> > once.
> > Just process those you think need that as many times as you 
> would have
> > "selected" them. It pretty much would amount to the same thing.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >  _____
> >
> > From: Boaz Bezborodko [mailto:boaz at mirrotek.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:07 AM
> > To: john at valar.com
> > Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > 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
> >
> > John Esak wrote:
> >
> > No a record can not be selected twice in sort selection. 
> Period. Don't 
> > even
> >
> > try... :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
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> >
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
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> >
> >
> > m] On Behalf Of Boaz Bezborodko
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:01 AM
> >
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> >
> > 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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