SELECT FILENAME SAVING SWITCHIT

Will work from TCL I believe....

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> From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-
> us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen
> Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:01 a.m.
> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
> Subject: [U2] SQL a possibility?
> 
> I'm trying to save the first field of a .csv file to a select list,
> Yes, I can
> write  a program,
>    but I also wanted to try to do it on the fly.
> 
> Using UV10.0.2 , unix on Information format
> 
> The source data looks like:
> '#12345566#','first','last',.....
> '#12344555#','first','last',.....
> 
> Basically, field one has the item ID of another file.
> 
> The source file gets read into a tempory file input file
> 
> I created an I-desc of the following:
> 
> SWITCHIT
> 0001: I
> 0002: CONVERT(REUSE(@AM),REUSE(@VM),@RECORD) ;
> FIELDS(@1,REUSE(","),REUSE(1))
> ;
>   CONVERT(REUSE('"# '),REUSE(''),@2)
> 0003:
> 0004: DATA
> 0005: 20L
> 0006: M
> 
> The above will convert the whole record into one mutlivalue attribute,
> then strip off the first field delimited by the ","
> then strip out the # ,' and spaces
> 
> LIST FILENAME ITEMNAME SWITCHIT ID-SUPP   will list to the screen
> exactly what
> I want
> and so does
> SELECT SWITCHIT FROM FILENAME WHERE @ID = 'ITEMNAME';
> 
> Now....How can I put that data into a saved-list? (Using either TCL or
> SQL?)
> for that matter, how do you save a list using SQL on Universe? I tried
> creating a view, but was told I
>     had to create a schema in order to create tables...that's no
fun...
> 
> I could open a como file, list the output with no headings close the
> como
> file,
> edit it clean, the form-list the como file (work around 1)
> 
> George
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