Yes that was the first syntax I tried, it strips off the trailing blanks Karen
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 8:44 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file oops, I see you already tried that. Have you tried this instead? SELECT ( LJS(SGET(policy_no,12,1),50) + LJS(tmpUniqueText,50) + LJS(ssn,9) + LJS(firstname,50) + + ....... + SFIL(' ',675) )=1450 + From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 8:34 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file How about adding a CR character at the end? 2 cR’s may not be a problem, it is the LF that makes a new line. Dennis McGrath From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:58 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file I had posted earlier that I had tried that. A char(255) worked but it left a visible character at the end of the row and they didn't like it -- it wasn't "blank" according to them Karen -----Original Message----- From: Bill Downall <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jan 5, 2015 5:57 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file Karen, Before you give up, try a variable as =(SFIL(' ',674) + char(255)) and the SELECT above. That's usually a non-breaking space, and there's a chance that it won't blow up the process at the receiving end. Bill On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Karen Tellef <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks but nope, it still does not retain the 675 sfil-ed spaces at the end. Looks like maybe I will have to resort to using a cursor with a sfil/sput/write. I don't want to do that because there are thousands of rows to cursor through, and this one select is almost instantaneous. Karen -----Original Message----- From: Bill Downall <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jan 5, 2015 5:20 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file Karen, SELECT that way does its own CR/LF. How about: SET V v675spaces TEX = (SFIL(' ', 675)) ...Blah blah SELECT ( LJS(SGET(policy_no,12,1),50) + LJS(tmpUniqueText,50) + LJS(ssn,9) + LJS(firstname,50) + + ....... + .v675spaces )=1450 + FROM tmpMIB Bill (sent from Android mobile) On Jan 5, 2015 6:10 PM, "Karen Tellef" <[email protected]> wrote: Well, Albert's solution ALMOST works. It does indeed put a carriage return exactly where I want it, so it retains the 675 blank spaces at the end. However, it puts an extra carriage return (therefore a blank row) between each row of data. Is there a way to suppress that, like a "write.... continue" would? Here's the relevant code and how different "vCRLF" variables evaluated: SET WIDTH 1500 SET VAR vCRLF = (CHAR(013)) SET HEADINGS OFF SET SELMARGIN 1 OUTPUT MIB.TXT SELECT ( LJS(SGET(policy_no,12,1),50) + LJS(tmpUniqueText,50) + LJS(ssn,9) + LJS(firstname,50) + + ....... + (SFIL(' ',675)) + .vCRLF )=1450 + FROM tmpMIB OUTPUT SCREEN Value of vCRLF: char(013) + char(010) this puts a blank row between each data row char(013) same as above char(010) does not retain the blank spaces, does a carriage return right after last data Karen -----Original Message----- From: Albert Berry <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 6:18 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file Would something like this work to create the line? Assumption is no CRLF at the end of the variable .vDataLine. SELECT (DataLine + (SFIL(' ',675)) + .vCRLF) FROM ... Albert On 1/4/2015 1:14 PM, Karen Tellef wrote: I need to create a file with fixed field lengths. Rather than doing SFIL/SPUT I did a "select" statement and it works great and is easy to code, except... I need to have 675 blank spaces at the end of each line and I can't figure out how to do that using a "select" statement. Has anyone done that, or do I need to use SFIL/SPUT. According to my notes, if I use SFIL/SPUT I'll have to use a cursor and then do something like this (and thanks to whoever originally posted this code and I saved it): --Add CarriageReturn/LineFeed charaters to the line Set var vDataLine = (SPUT(.vDataLine,.vCRLF,.vPastEnd)) --Make sure no trash data exists beyond CR/LF Set var vDataLine = (SGET(.vDataLine,..vTotalLength,1)) --Write the line, telling RBASE not to add its own CRLF WRITE .vDataLine CONTINUE Karen -- A democracy ..." can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury." Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler 1747-1813
