9. Routines working on groups of objects

The organization of Aster’s data structures is largely based on object names. Within the code, « concepts » are manipulated based on a name provided by the user as the result of the commands. It therefore seemed convenient to be able to manipulate groups of objects by providing a character substring, which is searched for in the names of all the objects present in the directories.

The routines jedetc and jedupc apply to lists of objects. They allow, in order, to release, destroy, and duplicate the objects in these lists.

These routines offer more flexibility to the developer to manage objects (data structures) but they are less efficient than the « hard » routines detrsd and copisd.

Rule of use:

Do not use the jedetc and jedupc routines. Use detrsd and copisd instead.