adding a single record from command line

[John Esak]

I haven't looked "ahead" at any other responses... . Just too easy to throw
out a quick response that will help even others have said the same thing
already.

Just - in your import process -  put a couple lines in @once processing - Do
a lookup to record 1 r=("1") and if it is there just END all is well.  Your
import will procede. If there is no record 1 then do a lookup free to the
file you are in (just use the file's own name) and then a line that says
lookup - to that record number, then END and your import stuff should move
on from there.


   @once   if:
         then: lookup there=this_filename r=("1")
           if: there
         then: END
           if:
         then: lookup recone=(this_filename r=free
         then: WRITE recone
         then: lookup - r=(recone("1")
         then: END

At this point your regular -z processing will begin at the top of the prc
table.


I don't do IMPORTS at all this way... And I don't want to think about how
you keep adding records from here....  Do you use a -xa on the commanhd line
or something.  That's up to you.

Maybe you are running your IMPORT to a looked-up file... Kind of the way I
do it... But I don't need to do the get record one stuff, becausse in my
IMPORT process I do the "ddir filename -k" in the @once process instead of
the get record one thing.  Now, all I do is lookup free's to that nice clean
file for each record in the .csv or whatever type file I'm importaing.

HTH

John



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> I have a 'temp' file that I import from a client, then do 
> misc processing on
> it and then copy all these records to a duplicate file for 
> archive purposes.
> I delete them from the original 'temp' file after I copy them 
> to the archive
> file.
> 
> Since the only time I get records to add to this 'temp' file 
> are in the form
> of a file I receive from a client, I run -K to delete all the 'blank'
> records to keep this 'temp' file
> from growing with a bunch of 'empty' records, etc.
> As you know, there must be at least 1 record in a filePro 
> file in order to
> do an 'import' to it.....so is there a built in command to 
> add one record to
> a file that has no records in it currently?
> 
> I guess I could write a simple output processing to do this 
> for me, just
> didn't know if there was a command I was unfamiliar with to 
> simply add 1
> blank record to a file
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Scott
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