James,
Funny you should ask ...
One of my financial and tax collection agency clients was required to
submit the delinquent
tax collection file for their GL package that required pretty much
the same file format
that you are required to use on your end.
In addition to using the SFIL and SPUT commands to create the string,
the key is to use
the correct ASCII Symbol Character (CHAR(00)) for creating a blank
line that should keep
the trailing (BLANK) spaces.
Using the sample RRBYW19 database, I have mocked up the actual
procedure to create a text
file to illustrate the use of SFIL and SPUT commands and maintaining
the trailing spaces.
See attached RRBYW19_FixedFieldFile.txt file.
In this sample each line is 80 characters long.
Using the MS Notepad, you will notice the trailing spaces.
Note:
If you need to open this file using the R:BASE Editor, make sure to
enable the setting for
[x] Keep Trailing Spaces. Otherwise, you will not be able to see any
trailing spaces.
If that is what you are looking for and need a sample application to
illustrate the use of
SFIL and SPUT to create Fixed Field File, feel free to reach out to me.
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak
At 04:26 PM 2/19/2018, James W. Kim, CPA, MBA wrote:
Need some help with creating text file that retains blank spaces at
the end of each row.
I often need to create text files with fixed row length such as 512
or 750 characters in
a row. When there are no data value near the right end of each row,
the unused spaces
need to be filled with blank spaces.
The following is an example of how such text file would be built.
The example creates a
row that has "FLOOR 7" at 274th space in a row that has 512
characters. With some previous
versions of R:Base, the trailing spaces is retained after insertion
of data using SPUT
function and line feed (CR/LF) would show up at 513th position.
However, the current version would remove the trailing space when
data is inserted using
SPUT function and the (CR/LF) moves up to 281st position.
Is there anyway I can force the retention of trailing spaces so that
CR/LF always shows
up at 513th position?
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