ASSOC

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The ASSOC keyword is a field qualifier to specify that the field is to be treated as part of a named association.

 

 

Format

 

field.name ASSOC "name"

 

where

 

field.nameis the name of the field (D or I-type) or an evaluated expression to be associated.

 

nameis the name of the association in which field.name is to be included. The name must be quoted to avoid its expansion as a phrase.

 

The ASSOC keyword causes field.name to be treated as part of the named association.

 

 

Example

 

LIST ORDERS PART.NO QTY EVAL "SELL * QTY" ASSOC LINE.ITEMS

 

This command processes records from the ORDERS file and reports the multi-valued part numbers, quantities and calculated line total value for each record. The evaluated expression is treated as a member of the association LINE.ITEMS to which the other reported fields already belong.

 

 

See also:

ASSOC.WITH