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WendyHope
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I need to create a pipe delimited text file that is variable length without trailing spaces in the various fields.

I tried doing a soft concatenation in my DEFINE, but it still requires me to set a fixed length for that field as a whole. I'm using a PIPE = '|' in my DEFINE to get the pipe character.

Thanks,

Wendy

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Version 767
Windows XP
a text file - pipe delimited without any trailing spaces in any of the fields
 
Posts: 2 | Registered: November 19, 2009Report This Post
Darin Lee
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Just create your defined field as a variable format field:
DEFINE FILE CAR
CCM/A52V=COUNTRY||'|'||CAR||'|'||MODEL;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CCM
-*ON TABLE SAVE AS CCM FORMAT ALPHA
END


Regards,

Darin


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Waz
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How about using FORMAT DFIX.
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT DFIX DELIMITER |
END


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
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Darin Lee
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How about using FORMAT DFIX


Well, that would be the easy way.

I forgot that the variable length field actually puts the length of the string at the beginning of the string so you have extra characters that you probably don't want.

if you run Waz's code and throw a
-RUN
-SET &CNT=&LINES;
-REPEAT LOOP &CNT TIMES
-READ HOLD &VALUES.A52. NOCLOSE
-TYPE &VALUES
-LOOP

at the end, you can see that you'll be getting exactly what you're asking for.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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WendyHope
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I finally found the time to focus on this project again. The DFIX wasn't working for me initially, but with the help of IBI figured out the WebFOCUS server needed to be upgraded to version 7.6.10 and then the DFIX worked great. IBI was able to replicate the DFIX not working on version 7.6.7.

Thanks so much for your responses.

Wendy


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