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DKWAN
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Our users frequently request ',' delimited file from us; however, the standard format from webfocus does not handle that correctly.
I would like to ask your assistance for a way easily using the standard option from webfocus and generate a file for my users. Please advice.
Currently, we have to do the file with following codes, but there will be some problem if it is a large number of output fields.


DEFINE FILE FILEO
REC1/A136=ID||(',' | NAME)||(','|SMAL_EMAIL_ADDRESS)||(','|PHONE2);
END

Output will be like-

id,name,emailaddr,phone ---no " is needed



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Glenda
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I'm not sure what you are asking.

FORMAT LOTUS will give you a comma delimited file as will FORMAT COMMA.

FORMAT COMT will give you a comma delimited file where the first line contains the column headings.


Glenda

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DKWAN
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The comm format comes back with a " around the alpha fields, but what the user wants is just , instead.

for example-
namelast, name first, age, mm/dd/yy, 9999
instead of
"namelast", "name first", age, "mm/dd/yy", 9999



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Francis Mariani
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The reason for double-quotes is that you could have data with commas in it (e.g. a Company Name could be Johnson, Johnson and Jackson) and you wouldn't be able to differentiate between a comma to separate the columns and a comma in the data.

If you're not worried about that, you could do this:

FILEDEF H1 DISK apptest/H1.TXT
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
COMPUTE COMM1/A1 = ',';
CAR
COMPUTE COMM2/A1 = ',';
MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS H1 FORMAT ALPHA
END

The output file will look something like this:

ENGLAND   ,JAGUAR          ,V12XKE AUTO             
JAPAN     ,DATSUN          ,B210 2 DOOR AUTO        
JAPAN     ,TOYOTA          ,COROLLA 4 DOOR DIX AUTO 
ITALY     ,ALFA ROMEO      ,2000 4 DOOR BERLINA     
W GERMANY ,BMW             ,2002 2 DOOR             
W GERMANY ,BMW             ,2002 2 DOOR AUTO        
W GERMANY ,BMW             ,3.0 SI 4 DOOR           
FRANCE    ,PEUGEOT         ,504 4 DOOR


Francis


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DKWAN
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Thanks Francis. We are currently using this method. We use the || to eliminate the trailing spaces (which is important for our file size and for FTP purpose).

I hope there is a way from webfocus we just need to issue ON TABLE PCHOLD etc.



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Leah
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I'd be curious what the ouput is to be used for, but to pull out all extra blanks, your build a string may be the 'best' solution, however 'bad' it is.


Leah
 
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JimRice
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I've created a tab delimited file and then used a perl script within my focexec to create a csv file. If you have perl installed on your webfocus server and you want to see an example, let me know.

Jim


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DKWAN
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Thanks. We don't have perl, but I guess you gave me an idea.
I'll read the csv file back and change tab to , using focus routine.



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Gray
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I don't know if this will help, but I developed a routine which takes a spreadsheet and creates a .MAS file so it's FOCUS-readable. The routine isn't 100% perfect, but it saves ME lots of tedious time trying to build a .MAS from scratch.

It uses good old green-screen FOCUS and Dialogue Manager.
 
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DKWAN
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Thanks for your reply. Excel will be helpful.



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