Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)
Guardian Procedure Calls (D-E)
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DELETEEDIT Procedure
DELETEEDIT Procedure
Summary
Syntax for C Programmers
Syntax for TAL Programmers
Parameters
Example
Related Programming Manual
Summary
The DELETEEDIT procedure deletes from an EDIT file all lines that have line numbers 
in a specified range. Upon completion, the current record number is set to the highest 
line number in the file that is lower than the deleted range, or to -1 if there is no such 
line.
DELETEEDIT is an IOEdit procedure and can be used only with files that have been 
opened by OPENEDIT or OPENEDIT_. 
Syntax for C Programmers  
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CEXTDECS (via the included file TNSINTH) defines 32-bit values as the typedef 
__int32_t which for TNS and TNS/R compiles is defined as 
long and for TNS/E 
compiles is defined as 
int. 
Syntax for TAL Programmers    
Parameters 
error returned value
INT
returns a file-system error number indicating the outcome of the operation.
filenum input
INT:value
#include <cextdecs(DELETEEDIT)>
short DELETEEDIT ( short filenum 
 ,__int32_t first
 ,__int32_t last );
error := DELETEEDIT ( filenum ! i
 ,first ! i
 ,last ); ! i










