SORTCHEK

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Author: Dan Mares, dmares @ maresware . com
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PURPOSE

To check the integrity of the sort sequence of a sorted file.

The file must be of a fixed length record format.

The program can only check primary sort sequence.


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OPERATION

This program will read an entire file and check to see that every key is in order and that none of the keys are out of sequence.

If a record is out of sequence, the program shows on the screen 3 records, including the record before and after the out of sort record.


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COMMAND LINE

C:> sortchek   inputfile   -[options[rpl]]
C:> sortchek   in1  -r 80 -p 20 -l 10

Check the sort sequence of a file whose record lenght is 80 and which is sorted on the 21 st character for a 10 character field. (remember, the -p option counts from 0 as the 1st character in the record).


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OPTIONS

-r #:  indicates record length

-p #:  indicates displacement(beginning at 0) to key field

-l #:  indicates length of key field

-D:  indicates sort is Descending order (default is ascending)


RELATED PROGRAMS

Disksort

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