EDELETE VS DELETE

[Joyce White]

   Hi, all! Can anyone please tell me the difference between EDELETE and DELETE, and whether one is preferred over the other? I used EDELETE yesterday to remove a record. I forgot the quotes and removed the whole file. Trying to do some research to see if there's a safer way to delete things, but jBASE documentation is not so good.

   To be clear, the command I used yesterday was EDELETE filename record, instead of EDELETE filename "record". It deleted filename, then told me it couldn't find a dictionary item for record. So basically it deleted everything BUT the record I chose. :(

    Thanks,

         Joyce

[Mvreply]

Joyce,

As previosuly mentioned, if you require in-depth feedback on this, can you please submit a ticket to dev...@jbase.com using your company email address?

 

Thanks,

Mike

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[Dan Ell]

https://docs.jbase.com/46350-jql/edelete

 

EDELETE in summary is the combination of SELECT and DELETE.   So, rather than

 

SELECT CUSTOMER WITH CITY = “TAMPA”

DELETE CUSTOMER

 

You can do it all in one statement

 

EDELETE CUSTOMER WITH CITY = “TAMPA”

 

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Subject: EDELETE VS DELETE

 

   Hi, all! Can anyone please tell me the difference between EDELETE and DELETE, and whether one is preferred over the other? I used EDELETE yesterday to remove a record. I forgot the quotes and removed the whole file. Trying to do some research to see if there's a safer way to delete things, but jBASE documentation is not so good.

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[Shivshankar Allada]

Dear Joyce,

I hope you will find the reference static URL helpful.

jbc.temenos.com/pages/delete.html 

Yes the documentation is very poor.

Regards

Shivshankar

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[Joyce White]

Thanks, all, for the replies!

Joyce