ENABLE User's Guide

TASK OVERVIEW
Files
The characters that are stored in a field are called the field
value. When more than one value is associated with a field, the
field is said to contain repeating field values. The field
itself is called a repeating field or group.
Records
A record is a collection of associated fields. Figure 2-12 shows
a typical employee record.
S5044-017
0001 Jack Jones 01 01 Manager • • •
Figure 2-12. Sample Employee Record
An employee record contains the field values that concern a
specific employee.
Files
A file is a collection of records. A file has a name but does
not occupy a specific location in relation to other files. A
file that contains a collection of employee records could be
named "employee." Figure 2-13 shows an example of such a file.
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