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#4 default match record

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2016-01-05
2015-12-25
No

Instead of demanding that all records have id/rid, it would be easier if the first record without ids matched if no previous did, as an implicit ELSE section.
Maybe with a warning, if it's not the last record.

Discussion

  • Timo Savinen

    Timo Savinen - 2015-12-31

    Only binary records have to have id/rid. Thats because in binary data the id/rid ist the only way to indentify a record.

     
  • Turbo Beholder

    Turbo Beholder - 2016-01-01

    Well, yes. In binary. But treating the first id-less record as default would simplify things.
    "First identified" approach could allow doing it with "rid myoffset ." in the last record - but then there's this zero-value bug, for one.

     
  • Timo Savinen

    Timo Savinen - 2016-01-05

    Yes, there is no way to indentify a record by its position in a file. Records must be indentified by its contents. I don't promise now anything about this.

     

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