RECNO()

Advantage Concepts

Advantage Expression Engine function that returns the identity at the position of the record pointer

Syntax

RECNO()à Identity

Return Values

RECNO()  Returns the identity found at the position of the record pointer.

Remarks

RECNO() is a database function that returns the identity found at the current position of the record pointer. Identity is a unique value guaranteed by the structure of the data file to reference a specific record of a data file. In an Xbase table this value is the record number.

Note Advantage Expression Engine functions can be used in expressions such as record filter expressions and index expressions. They are not necessarily scalars supported within SQL statements. For a list of supported SQL scalar functions, see Supported Scalar Functions.

See Also

None.