Re: Batch Processing

Nils Myklebust wrote: > david@temss2.main.temple.edu (David Tucker) wrote: > > :How do you update random rows within a table using data located with > :an external flat file? > > We use some of the file io rutines available in the software > repository at http://www.iiug.org to read the files in 4GL and do the > updates. >... That is the fastest, cleanest way, but an easier way might be to load the data into a temporary table with the 4gl load statement, and then process the temporary table. This assumes the flat file is in an acceptable "load" format. Dbaccess can do this too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John H. Frantz Power-4gl: Extending Informix-4gl frantz@centrum.is http://www.rl.is/~john/pow4gl.html