Xerox 701P21091 Options Criteria Constant parameter options and definitions, Criteria Linenum

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Options

Table 3-9. CRITERIA CONSTANT parameter options and definitions

Option	Definition
offset	The offset in bytes (relative to zero) from the start of the user portion of the
	record to the field in the record being compared.
length	The length in bytes of the test field. Its range is 1 to 255.
EQ	Indicates the operation EQUAL TO.
NE	Indicates “not equal to.”
tabid	table identifier.
	The identifier of a table, specified in the TABLE command, that contains the
	constant to which the test field is compared.

Default

CRITERIA

CONSTANT parameter syntax example

Syntax

No default

The following CRITERIA command syntax diagram describes a test for a subfield equal to a specific constant table.

criid: CRITERIA CONSTANT=(offset, length, EQ, tabid);

In the above syntax, the CONSTANT parameter specifies that the content of a record is to be compared to the values that were specified in a TABLE command with identifier tabid. (Refer to “TABLE command” in this chapter for an explanation of thetabid parameter.)

The subfield that will be compared is located the number of bytes indicated by the offset variable from the start of the user portion of the record. The subfield has a length the number of bytes indicated in the length variable. When the subfield in the record matches a constant in the table, the CRITERIA command is TRUE and the processing specified by the parameter is completed or acted upon.

CRITERIA LINENUM

Specifies the range of consecutive line numbers for which the CRITERIA command is fully evaluated.

CRITERIA LINENUM = (init, count)

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