SETINDEX Statement
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 Action

 Makes the specified ISAM table index the current index.


 Syntax



  SETINDEX #  filenumber% ,  indexname$

 Remarks


 The  SETINDEX statement uses the following arguments.

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 Argument                                Description
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  filenumber%                            The number used in the  OPEN
                                         statement to open the table.

  indexname$                             The name used in the  CREATEINDEX
                                         statement to create the index. If
                                         no  indexname$ argument or set of
                                         double quotation marks ("") is
                                         specified, the null index  becomes
                                         the current index. The NULL index
                                         represents the order in which
 Argument                                Description
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                                         represents the order in which
                                         records were added to the file.





 After  SETINDEX makes an index current, the current record is the first
 record according to that index.


 See Also

  CREATEINDEX,  DELETEINDEX,  GETINDEX$


 Example

 See the  CREATEINDEX statement programming example, which uses the  SETINDEX
 statement.