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kumarcoolboy
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Hello All,
Can someone tell me if we can display the FILE VARIABLE that is being used in a PL/I program ? If yes, then how ?? |
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Srihari Gonugunta
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Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 295 Location: Singapore
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Kumar,
Can you please elaborate the requirement? Have you checked the builtin functions related to FILE in PLI? |
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kumarcoolboy
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hi Srihari,
I have coded a PLI program where in am using FILE VARIABLE. Am passing this as an argument to a procedure am calling. I just want to know the value that is being passed as the argument i.e. the value in the file variable that is being passed. Hope this helps. |
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prino
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Joined: 07 Feb 2009 Posts: 1315 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
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No, you cannot display such data (ditto for task, entry and area variables)
Robert |
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kumarcoolboy
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ok, thank you very much...... |
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arivazhagan_k
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Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate. But we use POINTERs to pass the data. it will improve performance also...... |
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enrico-sorichetti
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Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate |
please explain why not ? |
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prino
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arivazhagan_k wrote: |
Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate. |
Says who? |
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arivazhagan_k
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please explain why not ? |
Suppose file variable holding 10000 bytes instead of passing those bytes information we can pass the pointer. it will improve the program excution speed. If i am wrong i am happy to correct me. Thanks. |
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prino
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arivazhagan_k wrote: |
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please explain why not ? |
Suppose file variable holding 10000 bytes instead of passing those bytes information we can pass the pointer. it will improve the program excution speed. If i am wrong i am happy to correct me. Thanks. |
Nuff said, you very obviously don't have a clue what a file variable actually is.
Maybe you should RTFM before you start blabbering away, a file variable has a size of 4 (F O U R) bytes. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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arivazhagan_k
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hi enrico,
Thanks for the valuable clarification.
hi prino,
Thanks for the correction. I misunderstood file variable with file structure. |
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