Re: TurboIMAGE vs KSAMXL

In message <205452.76249.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Edwin Clements <eclements@xxxxxxxxx> writing at 04:28:37 in his/her local time opines:-
I was thinking the same thing. It would be easy enough to set up a Suprtool procedure to do that, and it would do it very quickly and get you the information you need. That is probably how I would do it.

"Smarter" is nice sometimes, but there's definitely something to be said for the good old "KISS" principle.

Well, we can make it KIFS (Keep It Fairly Simple), by (rather than reading through a million records to get an entry count of zero or one or two) using FFINDBYKEY with RELOP = 0 for the key we are interested in, and then only having to read and count the exact matches with FREAD until encountering CCG.

--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Roy Brown <Roy_now_free_from_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Roy Brown <Roy_now_free_from_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] TurboIMAGE vs KSAMXL
To: HP3000-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 2:25 AM
In message <LISTSERV%200909282338022530.3528@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Brian
Donaldson <bmdinsocal@xxxxxxx>
writing at 23:38:02 in his/her local time
opines:-
>In TurboIMAGE if I want to see how many entries have a
particular key value
>all I have to do is look at the chain length on a
dbfind procedure.
>Works great.
>
>However, I have no idea how to do this with data stored
in a KSAMXL file.
>
>My question is this, can it even be done in KSAMXL ?
>
>TIA,
>
>Brian Donaldson.

Brute force would be read 'em and count 'em.

So yes, it can be done :-)

But you want smarter than that, right?

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