lookup -b option

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/2/2012 11:17 AM, GCC Consulting wrote:
> Odd question to ask after all of these years.
>
> When using the -b option to blank the lookup field if no matching record is
> found
> 	1. does the processing continue

Yes.  That's the point of telling it to do something other than fail with a 
fatal error.

> 	2. if it does, how does it handle any lookup to that file

It acts as if it found a record full of blanks.

> A client is using this and there is another lookup to another file which
> would use the value that is now blank.  I suggested we change the processing
> to -nx and add a not filename::14="";end as if the next lookup failed, the
> processing would end there.

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Kenneth Brody