Exit the search when the first hit is found

preethan · New User Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Chennai

May be this is a silly question. But I am not getting a easy solution for it.

I have two rows in an internal table. Let A,B,C be the field names

A B C

3 5 3
4 2 1
3 5 3

Now I'm using search variable in cobol. I am searching for the field 'A'. Lets assume that I'm searching if the field A has value as 3. There are two rows here. I want to exit the search when the first hit is found. I don't want the search to be performed even after getting hold of the first row. In simple terms I need to exit the search finding the first hit.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:38 am

Have you tried to code it? What happened? How do you interpret what the manual says?

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:54 am

Do a sequential search not a "search all".

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:13 am

The thing is, as Craq has said, if you do a plain SEARCH it will do what you want, ie only find the first "5" and then stop searching.

This is what it says in the manual. If you are not getting that behaviour, then we need to see your code (definitions of all the data and the SEARCH statement itself).

If you are having a problem, the easiest error to make is not to set up the initial condition for the search. Check what it says in the manual, check against your code.

If you are still having a problem, post the stuff requested (in the Code tags, please) and we can see what we can do.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:45 am

Hello,