Deleting the first row from a sequntial file

shobhit garg · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 8 Location: Pune

Hi ,

Can you tell me how can I delete a first row from sequential file with the help of COBOl program.

I know that we can delete entire file but I need to delete only first record,

Can anybody help me

superk · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:14 pm

You can't "DELETE" records from sequential datasets. You have to read the first record, toss it, them read-and-write from the second record to the EOF. You'll have to use a different output dataset. Then, once you're done, you can delete the original, and rename the new dataset to the old name.