PSC PT Program Generator Template Uses, Templates

Managing Data

Write Type

To indicate where the new information is stored in the selected file, select one of the following options:

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Insert	Places the data before a given record. When this option is selected, addi-
	tional options allow you to choose a specific record in the file. (These options
	are described in the preceding section, “Using a File as a Source.”)
Overwrite	Replaces a given record. When this option is selected, additional options
	allow you to choose a specific record in the file. (These options are
	described in the preceding section, “Using a File as a Source.”)
Append	Adds the data to the end of the existing file.
Sorted	Inserts the record into the file based on ascending ASCII value. Use this
	option to insert records into a specified file that has already been sorted to
	maintain the proper order of the records in the file.

Templates

A template is a structure that you can define and use to alter the way in which collected data is stored. Templates can be used only in registers, not in file records.

Template Uses

The most common use of templates is to parse data in a register. This allows you to collect and store more than one type of information. For example, your program could ask the user to first enter a location code for an item and then the item number. The template would combine each set of values in a register, and the value pair could then be copied to a file as fields in a single record. Data in the file would be arranged either in fields of a fixed size, as in the fol- lowing:

2348493848

48 393948

8293832

9832928

185392038

28282930

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