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Karanth
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Can i use a fixed length file as a data source in Web Focus?
 
Posts: 109 | Registered: January 31, 2006Report This Post
Pete
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Hi Karanth,

I think you only have to create a master file for it .

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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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Karanth
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Thats exactly what i want to know. How do you create it? There is an option only for delimited files.
 
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venu
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Suffix FIX should be used for fixed format files.

Sample data.mas
FILENAME=DATA , SUFFIX=FIX ,$
SEGMENT=SEG01 , SEGTYPE=S1 , $
FIELDNAME=KEY1, ALIAS=E01, USAGE=A10, ACTUAL=A10, $
FIELDNAME=VALUE1, ALIAS=E02, USAGE=D10, ACTUAL=A10, $
FIELDNAME=VALUE2, ALIAS=E03, USAGE=D10.2, ACTUAL=A10, $
 
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<JG>
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If your'e using the File Tool
ie right click (when in master folder) new , data file. The file type you need is Fixed Format
 
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Karanth
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Thanks a lot. It worked
 
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