.TH explode "" "" "/rdb Command"
.PC "Produce table of subparts and their count for a part"
\fBexplode \fIPart Amount \fB[ \fItable \fB]\fR
.PP
.II "table^explode part"
.II "explode part into subparts"
The command
.B explode
takes a part number or name and looks it up in a part table
to find all of its subparts.
It then finds the subparts of those subparts, and so forth, until
it can seek no farther.
.B explode
also multiplies the number of parts times the subpart
counts at each interaction, so the final subpart table
lists all of the subparts of the original part and the
total number of subparts needed to make the part.
.PP
You can use
.B explode
to generate a list of all items needed to make a product.
The cost of these subparts, times the count,
gives the value that can be totaled to arrive at the total
cost of the product.
.PP
.B explode 
assumes that the
.BR Part ,
.BR Subpart ,
and
.B Count
columns
are the first three columns of the table, and that the third column
is actually named
.BR Count .
.SH Example
If you had a
.B parttable,
like this:
.DM
Part    Subpart Count
----    ------- ------
10001   10010   3
10001   10020   4
10010   10100   2
10020   10100   5
.DE
.PP
and you wanted to find the subpart list and count for
two part 10001s, you would type:
.DM
	explode 10001 2
.DE
.PP
The result would be:
.DM
Part    Amount
----    ------
10001        2
10010        6
10020        8
10100       52
.DE
.PP
Note that both 10010 and 10020 have 10100 as a subpart, but
.B explode
uses
.B subtotal
to combine the 10100 subparts into one row.
The table is also sorted.
.SH "See Also"
.B
bom,
subtotal
.R
.SO explode