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Spence
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Is there a way to comma edit a variable that is being used from a -READ?

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES RETAIL_COST DEALER_COST
ON TABLE SAVE AS SAVEIT
END
-RUN
-READ SAVEIT &Sales.I6. &Retail.I7. &Dealer.I7.
-RUN
-TYPE &|Sales == &Sales
-TYPE &|Retail == &Retail
-TYPE &|Dealer == &Dealer

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WF 8 version 8.2.04. Windows.
In focus since 1990.
 
Posts: 189 | Location: pgh pa | Registered: October 06, 2004Report This Post
Dan Satchell
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You could probably use function ARGLEN with or without TRUNCATE to determine how many digits are in the variables and then use EDIT to insert commas. An easier way though, is to convert the values to alphas with commas before you write them to the SAVE file:

TABLE FILE CAR
 SUM
  SALES        NOPRINT
  RETAIL_COST  NOPRINT
  DEALER_COST  NOPRINT
 COMPUTE SALES_ALPHA/A12 = FTOA(SALES,'(D7)','A12');
 COMPUTE RCOST_ALPHA/A12 = FTOA(RETAIL_COST,'(D7)','A12');
 COMPUTE DCOST_ALPHA/A12 = FTOA(DEALER_COST,'(D7)','A12');
 ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
 ON TABLE SAVE AS SAVEIT 
END
-*
-RUN
-READ SAVEIT &Sales.12. &Retail.12. &Dealer.12.
-RUN
-TYPE &|Sales == &Sales
-TYPE &|Retail == &Retail
-TYPE &|Dealer == &Dealer


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Francis Mariani
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Not sure what you mean by "comma edit", -READFILE might be handy (but it's not available for 7.13):

quote:
You can also read a file using the -READFILE command. The -READFILE command reads a file by first reading its Master File and creating Dialogue Manager amper variables based on the ACTUAL formats for each field in the Master File. It then reads the file and, if necessary, converts the fields from numeric values to alphanumeric strings before returning them to the created variables. Display options in the USAGE formats are not propagated to the variables. The names of the amper variables are the field names prefixed with an ampersand (&).

-READFILE [app/]mastername


Francis


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Spence
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Thanks guys. Dan that works for me. Thanks for your help.


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