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EXTERNAL DELETE XD Standard Verb External File Access Operation
Target = REFERENCE (RF), EXTERNAL ECHO (XE)

Removes a record with the specified reference from a file. If PRAGMA cannot
find the specified record, the EXTERNAL ECHO will contain a "record not found"
message and no record will be deleted.

The reference of the record is written to the target noun REFERENCE.
The noun EXTERNAL ECHO contains the status message of the file operation.

EXTERNAL DELETE reference CHOICE in file FILE

CHOICE can be a noun, number or an expression. CHOICE is the reference of
the record. FILE is the name of the file that contains the record to be
deleted.

SEE ALSO: EXTERNAL GET THIS / EXTERNAL BEGIN


 

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