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If the processing continues to the last ACCEPT/REJECT statement, the last statement will determine
whether the record is accepted or rejected.

I just need to know on what scenario above statement is true . Can anyone please explain me with example ?

Hello,

I just need to know on what scenario above statement is true

First - i don't "do" Natural - but:
This behavior should be true all of the time. . .

Unless there is something i completely misunderstand. . .

If the processing continues to the last ACCEPT/REJECT statement, the last statement will determine whether the record is accepted or rejected.

Processing of individual ACCEPT/REJECT statements is straightforward, but Diptisaini's quote is from the manual section "Processing of Multiple ACCEPT/REJECT Statements."

A series of individual ACCEPT/REJECT statements (non-consecutive, separated by other statements) is treated like multiple logical criteria joined with ANDs, as you would expect. Contiguous/consecutive ACCEPT/REJECT statements are processed as though they were a single compound IF with the criteria separated with ORs.


If the CITY field contains "Cairo", the record is accepted, and there is no need to test the GENDER and AUTO fields.
If the CITY is not Cairo, then the GENDER field is tested. If it contains "M", the record is accepted and the AUTO field is not tested.
If the first two criteria are false, then the record will be accepted or rejected based on the contents of the final criterion - the AUTO field.

Thanks for the clarification

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Perhaps my previous post should have included this example.

Here, I appended a WRITE statement to the original example

It is a nice information.........

It statements are used for admit to a group or no admit to a group of record. The logical criteria specified by the user will enable this.
The ACCEPT/REJECT statement will be used to processing loop (FIND, READ, HISTOGRAM, CALL FILE, SORT or READ WORK FILE). The processing will be done after the reading.