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[SOLVED] How do I embed a carriage return in the text of my iWay Constant object

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May 23, 2013, 04:12 PM
Phil DeBusk
[SOLVED] How do I embed a carriage return in the text of my iWay Constant object
This must be simple but I can't seem to find the right way to do this. I simply want to split two text strings with a carriage return so the output will show up on two separate lines when written to a flat text file.

I have a iway service object that is a com.ibi.agents.XDConstantAgent "or Constant" object. The output format is "flat". the Output line say looks like this _concat('Error during processing',SREG(EDAErr) ). I would like to put these two strings on separate lines. _concat('Error during processing',\n,SREG(EDAErr) ) I've tried many things in the "carriage return" area of the concatenation \n, \r, '\n', '\r', @CRLF(), CHR(13), etc. I'm at a loss as to how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm still learning the function reference's and escape chars of ISM...obviously.

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May 29, 2013, 07:00 PM
iwayjeff
Phil,

It certainly looks like tried all the logical things, and there may not be a way to do this.

However, if you are writing the result directly to file, then consider this:

You could write 'THING1' to a file using File Write w/ "Append CRLF" = true.
Then do another constant agent for 'THING2' and another File Write to the same file. This time set "APPEND" = true, so the first one doesn't get overwritten.

If this is not what you are looking for, please open a case on our Hottrack system. I would have to research this and speak with engineering.

Regards,
Jeff
iWay Advanced Technical Support


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June 11, 2013, 02:54 PM
Phil DeBusk
Thanks Jeff, yes this does produce the desired output and kudos to you for being creative! However this IS a work-around for what I believe to be a small shortcoming of the iway toolset. I like my log files to have some bare-minimum formatting.


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