Record Input

Record input is useful for sorting information that is entered interactively or produced internally by a program. To input records to SORT/XL you use the HPSORTINPUT intrinsic.

MERGE/XL does not allow record input. The syntax of HPSORTINPUT is:

   HPSORTINPUT (status, buffer, length);

The buffer parameter contains the record to be input.

	NOTE: The buffer parameter is a character (byte) array. If your record contains other data types, you must build buffer byte by byte.

The length parameter contains the length of the record.

	NOTE: This value must not be greater than the value of the reclength parameter in the HPSORTINIT intrinsic.

An example of using HPSORTINPUT follows:

   var

     status : INTEGER;

     buffer : packed array [1..80] of CHAR;

     length : INTEGER;

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   HPSORTINPUT (status, buffer, length);

To use record input: