Specifying unformatted criteria

The Compare - Unformatted Criteria screen (see the following figure) enables you to specify field criteria (up to 50) for your compare. The field criteria can either be Compare or Exclude commands.

For the Compare field criteria, OLD and NEW field TYPE, the two field types must be the same or you may mix Binary, Packed, or Zoned data. When the NEW information is left blank, File-AID defaults to the OLD information.

For the Exclude field criteria, the field type must be character (C) or blanks. All Exclude field criteria must be the same for the OLD and NEW, the values for position, length and field type are copied from the OLD to the NEW.

Important

When comparing two character fields with different lengths, File-AID will only compare up to the shortest length field. For example, if you have a 198 length field for your OLD and a 199 length field for your NEW and all the data in the first 198 bytes are the same for both fields, File-AID considers these as matching. File-AID does not include the 199th byte within the compare.

For this example, skip the field criteria specification.

Compare - Unformatted Criteria

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Press Enter to skip specifying unformatted criteria.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*