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EXTERNAL BEGIN XB Standard Verb External File Access Operation
Target = EXTERNAL ECHO (XE)

Positions a file pointer directly ahead of the record referenced by NAME.
EXTERNAL BEGIN merely positions a file pointer, so that the subsequent EXTER-
NAL GET NEXT will access the record. If the file does not contain a record
with the referenced expression, the EXTERNAL GET NEXT statement will access
the next existing record in the file.

EXTERNAL BEGIN at position NAME in file FILE

NAME identifies the record that you want to access. It can be a noun or an
expression.
FILE is the name that contains the record.

SEE ALSO: EXTERNAL GET NEXT / EXTERNAL BEGIN THIS


 

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