RE: [sqr-users] renaming an input file?

["the dragon" <ceprn@hotmail.com>]

What I notice immediately is that while you're creating another identical 
file, you're not removing the first file, so it doesn't fill your needs...  
Why not close the file, and then use an OS command through call system to 
rename your file??

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clark 'the dragon' willis



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----Original Message Follows----

I am once again writing the group on a question I already have an answer to, 
just to see if someone has a better answer.  I am writing an interface that 
reads an incoming file.  To prevent someone from running a given file more 
than once, I need to rename the incoming file after I'm done with it.  
Here's how I've thought to do it, in pseudo-code:

Open file.txt as 10 for-reading record=2226:fixed ...
Open renamedfile.txt as 20 for-writing record=2226:fixed ...

read a line from 10
write the line to 20

do whatever else I need to with the line

loop through until I'm done with the file

Close 10
Close 20

Open file.txt as 30 for-writing record=2226:fixed ...

write one blank line to 30
Close 30

Clearly (unless my pseudo-code is unreadable), this will get the job done, 
but I just feel like it's a bit cheesy.  I'm guessing that this is a fairly 
common thing to do, and I may be simply missing something incredibly 
obvious.  Please let me know if any of you have a suggestion on a better way 
for me to accomplish this.  Thanks!

-John T.



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