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READ Statement

Description
The READ statement makes a record available to the program. For sequential access, the READ statement makes the next logical record from a file available to the object program. For random access, the READ statement makes a specified record from a direct-access file available to the object program. When the READ statement is executed, the associated file must be open in INPUT or I-O mode. The READ statement has five formats:


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