Record number

[Richard Kreiss]

This may be a Ken question:

A while back I seem to remember there was a discussion of the record number size.  For many years we were told that the record number was (8,.0).  This record size would only allow 99,999,999 records.  After that, the record number would be greater than 8 digits.  So any programming that might use rn(8,.0) would have problems with an extremely large database.  It was indicated that somehow filePro could handle values larger than 8 digits for a record number.

What has bothered me is how the program can properly handle this unless @rn is used for record number up to 8 digits and somewhere else there is another value that contains the larger number.  
	1. Does @rn have a variable size based on the recode # - (8,.0) or (10,.0)?
	2. If 1 above is true, would rn(len(@rn),Edit(@rn)) hold the correct value for the record number?
	3. If not,  how would one handle this if one needed to do a record # lookup?


Richard Kreiss
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