Suppose we have 10 records with same name and we are reading using READE,after 4 record i have to use CHAIN what is the output

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Suppose we have 10 records with same name and we are reading using READE,after 4 record i have to us..

Answer / ganesh kandaswamy

Chain is nothing but the combination of setll and reade. After reaching 4th record if we chain it will again reading the 1st record.

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Suppose we have 10 records with same name and we are reading using READE,after 4 record i have to us..

Answer / ravi kumar

Once check the question again...

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Suppose we have 10 records with same name and we are reading using READE,after 4 record i have to us..

Answer / aanchal

After reading 4 records if we chain the file. It will read the 4th record. That is the 4th record will be read twice.

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