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DELETE( entity )

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DELETE Removes a record from a FILE, VIEW, or QUEUE structure.
entity The label of a FILE, VIEW, or QUEUE structure.

The DELETE statement removes a record.

FILE Usage

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DELETE(file) removes the last record successfully accessed by NEXT, PREVIOUS, GET, REGET, ADD, or PUT. The key entries for that record are also removed from the KEYs. DELETE does not clear the record buffer. Therefore, data values from the record just deleted still exist and are available for use until the record buffer is overwritten. If no record was previously accessed, or the record is held by another workstation, DELETE posts the “Record Not Available” error and no record is deleted.

VIEW Usage

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DELETE(view) removes the last VIEW primary file record that was successfully accessed by a NEXTor PREVIOUS statement. The key entries for that record are also removed from the KEYs. DELETE does not remove records from any secondary JOIN files in the VIEW. If no record was previously accessed, or the record is held by another workstation, DELETE posts the “Record Not Available” error and no record is deleted. The specific disk action DELETE performs in the file is file driver dependent.

DELETE only deletes the primary file record in the VIEW because the VIEW structure performs both relational Project and Join operations at the same time. Therefore, it is possible to create a VIEW structure that, if all its component files were updated, would violate the Referential Integrity rules set for the database. The common solution to this problem in SQL-based database products is to delete only the Primary file record. Therefore, Clarion has adopted this same industry standard solution.

QUEUE Usage

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DELETE(queue) removes the QUEUE entry at the position of the last successful GET or ADD and de-allocates its memory. If no previous GET or ADD was executed, the “Entry Not Found” error is posted. DELETE does not affect the current POINTER procedure return value, however, once the entry is deleted, the POINTER value for all subsequent entries in the QUEUE decrement by one (1).

If the QUEUE contains any reference variables or fields with the ANY data type, you must reference assign a NULL to each reference variable and ANY field in the queue structure before the DELETE statement. This will avoid memory leaks by freeing up the memory used by the ANY or reference variables before the DELETE statement.

If for any reason you plan to use DISPOSE on an object in a queue that was created with NEW, you must issue the DISPOSE before the DELETE statement is executed.

Errors Posted:

05 Access Denied
08 Insufficient Memory
30 Entry Not Found
33 Record Not Available

Example:

Customer  FILE,DRIVER('Clarion'),PRE(Cus)  !Declare customer file layout

AcctKey    KEY(Cus:AcctNumber)

Record     RECORD

AcctNumber  LONG

Name        STRING(20)

Addr        STRING(20)

City        STRING(20)

State       STRING(20)

Zip         STRING(20)

          END

         END

CustView  VIEW(Customer)                 !Declare VIEW structure

          PROJECT(Cus:AcctNumber,Cus:Name)

         END

NameQue   QUEUE,PRE(Que)

Name       STRING(20),NAME('FirstField')

Zip        DECIMAL(5,0),NAME('SecondField')

         END

CODE

DO BuildQue                             !Call routine to build the queue

LOOP X# = RECORDS(NameQue) TO 1 BY -1   !Loop backwards thriough queue

 GET(NameQue,X#)                        !geting each entry

 ASSERT(NOT ERRORCODE())

 IF NameQue.Name[1] = 'J'               !Evaluate a condition

  DELETE(NameQue)                       !and delete only specific entries

  ASSERT(NOT ERRORCODE())

 END

END

OPEN(Customer)

Cus:AcctNumber = 12345                  !Initialize key field

SET(Cus:AcctKey,Cus:AcctKey)

OPEN(CustView)

NEXT(CustView)                          !Get that record

 IF ERRORCODE()

  STOP(ERROR())

 END

DELETE(CustView)                        !Delete the customer record

CLOSE(CustView)                         !Close the VIEW

Cus:AcctNumber = 12345                  !Initialize key field

GET(Customer,Cus:AcctKey)               !Get that record

IF ERRORCODE() THEN STOP(ERROR()).

DELETE(Customer)                        !Delete the customer record

See Also:

HOLD

NEXT

PREVIOUS

PUT

GET

ADD

ANY

CLEAR

Reference Variables

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