Lesson 6: Selecting Specific Records
In the previous lessons, the FOR EACH and DISPLAY statements were used to display all records within a file. This lesson covers the selection of specific records for use in the procedure.
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be familiar with the following topics:
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Selecting specific records using the record phrase in the FOR EACH statement
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The BEGIN and MATCHES Progress functions
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Conditional expressions using Progress operators
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Index specification and record selection
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Conditional processing using IF ... THEN ... ELSE and the CASE statement
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Requesting user input with the PROMPT-FOR statement
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