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Jonathan K.
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I have a job that I am running, but the .txt file that is being sent has two spaces on every line at the beginning of the line. Is there any way to remove these or change them? Thanks.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
BODYTYPE
DEALER_COST
BY CAR
ON CAR SUBFOOT
"TEST"
ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE
-*ON TABLE HOLD AS TEST FORMAT ALPHA
END

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Waz
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There are several ways.

Play with the margins
Set IN 0 for the first column
Play with the LEFTGAP in the stylesheet of the first column.


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BabakNYC
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I just ran this request in 8.105 with HOLD FORMAT ALPHA. When I open it in MS Notepad, I don't see any extra spaces.


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Jonathan K.
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I've tried settings margins and leftgap, unfortunately it didn't work.

Maybe in 8.105 they fixed the issue.


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Can you post the code you used that didn't work ?


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Jonathan K.
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I created a Reportcaster job with .txt file extension referencing this fex.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
BODYTYPE
DEALER_COST
BY CAR
ON CAR SUBFOOT
"TEST"
ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE
-*ON TABLE HOLD AS TEST FORMAT ALPHA
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,LEFTMARGIN=0,LEFTGAP=0,$
ENDSTYLE
END

I have tried all .txt report formats, and while ALPHA excludes the spacing, it doesn't factor in the SUBFOOT.

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What format are you returning the report ?

Also FORMAT ALPHA is a HOLD file format, it does not support headings, footings, subfoots and other options.


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[SOLVED]TEXT output format???

check if this helps


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Jonathan K.
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Whenever I do a hold/save I lose the subfoot formatting as Waz has stated.

Simply doing:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
BODYTYPE
DEALERCOST
END


Creates 2 spaces at the start of every row using TAB/TABT/WP .txt formats. Only report format that doesn't do this is Alpha, but as stated earlier, it doesn't support headings, footings, etc.

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TAB and TABT should not have the 2 characters.

WP will, as the first two character are (old) print control for old line printers.


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<Emily McAllister>
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Hello,

Like Waz stated you should not be seeing the spaces at the beginning of your file if you are using format TABT. I'm not seeing the spaces when I run it so I am not sure why you are. Do you have them even when you do not have a SUBFOOT?

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Jonathan,

I have hit this very problem. It's a bunch of extra coding, but what you can do is on the TABLE FILE do a

ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOPAGE AND LINES 999999
ON TABLE SAVE FORMAT WP

Then after the TABLE FILE you set up a Dialogue Manager loop, do a -READ, LJUST each line. and then -WRITE into another file.
 
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