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DomR
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When I download WebFOCUS reports in CSV format (PCHOLD FORMAT COMT), they often come with lots of NUL bytes in the content. I could not figure out what causes this. As a workaround I open those reports with Excel and save them in place. This somehow removes the NUL bytes while leaving the strings intact, so I can then use the CSV files for further processing. How can I prevent those NUL bytes in the first place?

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MartinY
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Have you tried the SET NULL = ON or OFF ?

But pay attention to that SET definition:

Propagates missing values to a delimited HOLD file when the field has MISSING=ON in the Master File. The HOLD formats supported for SET NULL=ON are COM, COMT, TAB and TABT.


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SET NULL = ON or OFF did not work for me, but I found another solution. Apparently the problem was related to the formatting used on some fields: ACTUAL=A9.

I suppose this could be fixed directly in the master files if one is able to edit them. I instead fixed it by defining new fields for my report and using those instead of the original ones, as in

DEFINE FILE SOMETABLE
FIXED_FIELD/A9V = ORIGINAL_FIELD;
END

The "V" in the formatting made the difference. No more NUL bytes in the output.


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