winston19842005 wrote:
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> On 12/22/07 8:48 AM, in article 13mq5vi2bqc84a7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Joe"
> <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> Jim Leonard wrote:
>>> On Dec 18, 9:17 pm, Joe <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> All programmers worth their salt start counting from 0. The more
>>>>> experienced a programmer you become, the more you'll understand why.
>>>> Ok, do you have a way to tell when I database has 0 records in. That
way
>>>> I would be able to tell the program what to do. That way I could
avoid
>>>> all these crashes
>>> You maintain a variable that has a count of how many records exist.
>>> For example, "NumRecords".
>> Ok, I guess no one is getting the idea here. Jim. I know that.
>>
>> NumRecords:= filesize(U);
>>
>> The line above returns all the records. You must remember that the
first
>> record starts at '0'. Not at 1. So my question is how to I tell if the
>> (U) has one record or no records in it.
>>
>> if (NumRecords = 0) then exit;
>>
>> the line above by passes the first record. The first record all ways
>> starts at 0.
>>
>
> I think everybody understands you are not a programmer.
>
> Question: What does filesize return for an empty file? If it returns 0
for
> both an empty file and a file with 1 record, then you need another
method
> for determining if a file is empty, which probably exists.
>
> Depends on your flavor of Pascal and/or available functions.
>
Thank You, Thats just what I'm trying to say. Any way have any ideas. I
use Vpascal Version 2.1
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