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Tomsweb
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Trying to create a routine that will dump all of the data from a database and store it in file. This is a flat file, and I want the data to be stored in text format.

I've been testing it and it does not seem to work. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong with it?

 
FILEDEF CR3NTS DISK K:\CR3NTS.txt
-RUN

TABLE FILE WXYZDOGS
PRINT *

ON TABLE SAVE AS CR3NTS FORMAT ALPHA
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE
END
-RUN

SET HTMLFORMTYPE=TXT

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
!IBI.FIL.CR3NTS;
-HTMLFORM END

-RUN
-EXIT

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Tomsweb
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Posts: 573 | Location: Baltimore, MD | Registered: July 06, 2006Report This Post
David Briars
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!IBI.FIL might not be a bad way to check the file contents, unless the records are very long, and you are blowing through some max length for -HTMLFORM.

Did you go to the K: and try opening the file in Notepad?
 
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Wep5622
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Just as a sanity check; is K:\CR3NTS.txt a path on the server?


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Danny-SRL
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Tom,
What doesn't work?
No records?
Also, what type of file is WXYZDOGS?
Also, ON TABLE SAVE does not need FORMAT ALPHA: SAVE always produces alpha.
How about adding SET MSG=ON before your TABLE request to see how many records were extracted?
Lastly, if you are using PRINT * to dump your data into a flat file, I would suggest you use TABLEF.


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Francis Mariani
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I didn't expect it to, but this works, it displays the saved file in an HTML page:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
*
ON TABLE SAVE AS CR3NTS FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN

SET HTMLFORMTYPE=TXT
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
!IBI.FIL.CR3NTS;
-HTMLFORM END


Francis


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Tomsweb
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[solved] Originally posted by Tomsweb:
Trying to create a routine that will dump all of the data from a database and store it in file. This is a flat file, and I want the data to be stored in text format.

I've been testing it and it does not seem to work. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong with it?

 
FILEDEF CR3NTS DISK K:\CR3NTS.txt
-RUN

TABLE FILE WXYZDOGS
PRINT *

ON TABLE SAVE AS CR3NTS FORMAT ALPHA
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE
END
-RUN

SET HTMLFORMTYPE=TXT

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
!IBI.FIL.CR3NTS;
-HTMLFORM END

-RUN
-EXIT


Tomsweb
WebFOCUS 8.1.05M, 8.2.x
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