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Property of a FILE that returns whether the current record is held. Returns 1 if the record is held and an empty string ('') if not. (READ ONLY)

**Example:**

**FileName STRING(256)**

**Customer FILE,DRIVER('Clarion')**

**Record    RECORD**

**Name       STRING(20)**

**          END**

**         END**

** CODE**

** OPEN(Customer)**

** SET(Customer)**

** LOOP**

**  HOLD(Customer,1)**

**  NEXT(Customer)**

**  IF ERRORCODE() THEN BREAK END**

**  IF Customer{****PROP:Held****} <;> ''**

**   MESSAGE('Record Held')**

**  END**

** END**

** RELEASE(Customer)**