Sybase problem

[Curt Russell Crandall]

I have a program that reads a file, and tries to process each line and
insert the results into a database table.  If the processing fails, the
line is written to a reject file where it is corrected and reprocessed.

In reject processing mode, I open the reject table, read a line, process
it and then delete it from the table.  Each line in the reject table has a
numeric id as its primary key.  If processing fails, the program reinserts
the line back into the table under a different ID prior to