Jim, I was under the impression sometime back the RBase nolonger requires you to change the "," (comma) delimiter to something else when you use a currency format that swaps the function of the "." and ",".
Perhaps some of our international users can chime in with info. Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [email protected] tel: 1-504-737-3293 ________________________________ From: Jim Belisle <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:06:45 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - SV: gateway export and Specification_file_name Meddelande Christian, I was interested in what you are trying to accomplish so I read the HELP on currency. I do not know what your settings are for the RBASE database you work with, but I would assume if you set up your database with your currency settings by changing the Settings “A” and setting your Suffix to Kr, you would get your desired results with your export. Help states: For example, to display currency in two digits with a prefix of DM (deutsche marks) with the display format A, at the R> prompt, enter SET DELIMIT=! SET CURRENCY DM PREF 2 A This command displays 1,500 deutsche marks and 25 pfennigs in the format like this: DM 1.500,25. Jim ________________________________ From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of christian hjortmar Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:22 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - SV: gateway export and Specification_file_name Thank you, Gunnar! Well, I have tried the first half of what you have written, ie, have a predefined excelsheet. The ODBC thing I haven't tried, though. At one point I thought it was about delimiters. USA have a dot as a decimal delimiter while here in Sweden a comma is the norm. What I want to send out from my R:Base application is for example "cust_no, order_no, a_total", (4058,23456,'234.45Kr'). It must not be an excelfile, a textfile would do. Thing is, at work, I have complained about consultants not providing easy ways of emptying their applications when they for some reason get obsolete. So the application I am working on must of course have this option ;-) Exporting currency values through GATEWAY, rests at the moment in back of my head but I am grateful for all ideas and angels. Regards Christian Hjortmar ----- Original Message ----- From:Gunnar Ekblad To:RBASE-L Mailing List Sent:Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:23 PM Subject:[RBASE-L] - SV: gateway export and Specification_file_name Christian I have tried to find a solution the way you asked for. I did not manage, maybee I was slow on my last razzak training!?, It might be there but I did not find it. However if you revrse the the issue, create an excelshett with predefinde columns with formats and then do an ODBC inquriy you should be able to achive what you want! Let me add I am happy to see user from sweden that I was not aware about. Dont heisitate to answer privatly if yo you have an issue with my reply! Gunnar Ekblad Kontema IT AB Hästholmsvägen 32 131 30 Nacka Sweden -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För christian hjortmar Skickat: den 5 juni 2009 21:04 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List Ämne: [RBASE-L] - gateway export and Specification_file_name Hi, all! When exporting to an excel sheet from GATEWAY. Is it posssible to specify the format of the target column within the SPECIFICATION_FILE_NAME option? I.e. an price column in excel should have 2 decimals. Thankyou Christian
