Specifications

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Syntax:
GET [#]filenumber[,recordnumber]
Parameter:
filenumber
A numeric expression which returns a value from 1 to 16.
recordnumber
A numeric expression which returns a value from 1 to 32767.
Description:
GET reads the record specified by recordnumber from the data file specified by
filenumber and assigns the data to the field variable(s) specified by the FIELD
statement.
• filenumber is the file number of a data file opened by the OPEN statement.
• If a data file having no record is specified, a run-time error will occur.
• The first record in a data file is counted as 1.
• If no
recordnumber is specified, the GET statement reads a record whose
number is one greater than that of the record read by the preceding
GET state-
ment.
If no
recordnumber is specified in the first GET statement after opening of a
file, the first record (numbered 1) in the file will be read.
•
recordnumber should be equal to or less than the number of written records.
If it is greater, a run-time error will occur.
• If a GET statement without recordnumber is executed after occurrence of a
run-time error caused by an incorrect record number in the preceding
GET state-
ment, then the new
GET statement reads the record whose record number is one
greater than that of the latest record correctly read.
• If a
GET statement without recordnumber is executed after execution of the
preceding
GET statement specifying the last record (the number of the written
records), then a run-time error will occur.
File I/O statement
GET
Reads a record from a data file.