dfile@ecsvax.UUCP (Dean File) (12/31/87)
In interactive Datatrieve, when one forms a collection of records, there is a statistical variable, COUNT, that contains the number of records in the collection. Is there a way, in "callable" Datatrieve, to get this COUNT value passed to the calling program, where it could be used as an integer variable? It seems like this should be one of the uses of the DTR$INFO call, but none of the info-code options seems to fit the bill. I don't want to have to pass the data records themselves into the calling program, just the number of them in the collection. I know that the Datatrieve message, [n records found], can be passed, but that is not a value, just a line of output. Dean File Lab for Computing and Cognition UNC-CH School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC