I'm using SQR (in a product called Brio) to read a text file and update a MSSQL database using the data in it. I've not used SQR before but the online help is quite good, and I'm getting by.
My program is working except for one thing. I would like to rename the input text file after successfully using it, to prevent it inadvertantly being processed again.
But I can't get the RENAME statement to work.
Here is my code:
if $errors = 'N' and $update = 'Y'
print 'No errors - update now proceeding ...' (+2,1)
do update-processing
print 'Updating complete - end of job' (+2,1)
let $newfilename = $filename || $systemdate
let $oldname-mess = 'old name ' || $filename
let $newname-mess = 'new name ' || $newfilename
print $oldname-mess (+2,1)
print $newname-mess (+2,1)
let #fstatus = rename($filename, $newfilename)
let $fstatus = #fstatus
let $status-mess = 'status ' || $fstatus
print $status-mess (+2,1)
end-if
It prints 'status 13.000000000000000', and the file does not get renamed.
I haven't been able to find out what status 13 means, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Any ideas please?
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Thanks for your comment dp.
Yes, I have closed the file prior to the attempted rename.
In fact I open it, validate the records, close it, and then, if the validation was OK, I open it again read the records, update the db, and close it again.
Then I try the rename. Everything before the attempted rename works fine.
Spot on dplittle. I am an idiot.
>>In fact I open it, validate the records, close it, and then, if the validation was OK, I open it again read the records, update the db, and close it again.
On closer inspection I found that I had inadvertantly commented out the second close.
For the benefit of others who may read this, I stumbled on an SQR user group ( http://www.sqrug.org/ ) and discovered that the error status 13 means "a problem with permissions". As you say, dplittle, obviously occurring because the file was locked as it had not yet been closed.
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by: dplittlePosted on 2003-12-18 at 07:14:06ID: 9964620
I'm not sure but I think that may be the "file locked error". Have you tried using CLOSE before doing the RENAME?
David