DELETETABLE Statement
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 Action

 Removes a table and deletes any indexes based on the table from an ISAM
 database.


 Syntax

  DELETETABLE  database$,  tablename$


 Remarks

 The  DELETETABLE statement uses the following arguments.

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 Argument                                Description
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  database$                              A database filename or path. The
                                         argument  database$ specifies an
                                         optional device, followed by a
                                         filename or path conforming to the
                                         DOS naming conventions. The
                                         database$ specification must be
                                         the name of an ISAM file.

  tablename$                             The name used in the  OPEN
                                         statement to open the table.
 Argument                                Description
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                                         statement to open the table.



 If the specified file is not an ISAM database file, BASIC generates the
 error message Bad file mode.


 Warning

 Use  DELETETABLE with caution.  DELETETABLE  permanently removes the
 specified table from the database.


 See Also

  CLOSE,  DELETE,  DELETEINDEX,  OPEN


 Example

 See the programming example for the  SEEKGT,  SEEKGE, and  SEEKEQ
 statements, which uses the  DELETETABLE statement.