RightMV

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Various tutorials on RightMV from beginner to expert.

TUTORIAL 11 · STEP 1 OF 16

Using indexes from TCL and MV BASIC

Build a secondary index and use it from selections and MV BASIC

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An index turns a value into candidate item ids

A secondary index is built from a dictionary descriptor. For NAME.IDX using NAME, RightMV reads NAME from each TUTORIAL.CUSTOMERS record and stores the corresponding item ids by value. This lesson continues with the file and NAME dictionary created in the previous DATA and DICT tutorial.

Complete DATA and DICT file access first →