You're pretty much on your own. CFFILE provides just simple means of
modifying and working with files within the file system. For fixed width
columns, I usually use the LeftJustify() function, something like:
<cfset s = "">
<!--- Loop: add one line per iteration --->
<cfloop ...>
<cfset s = s & LJustify(first_field, 45)#>
<cfset s = s & LJustify(second_field, 20)#>
<cfset s = s & LJustify(third_field, 32)#>
<cfset s = s & LJustify(fourth_field, 50)#>
<cfset s = s & Chr(13) & Chr(10)>
</cfloop>
<cffile action="write" file="c:\whatever" output="#s#" addnewline="no">
If the file is relatively small, construct the whole file in memoroy
whithin a variable, as shown above. If you're writing a multi-megabyte
file, you can use <cffile action="append" > and append one or ten or fifty
(or whatever) lines at a time, so that the memory requirements of the
template are less.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Marlene Buffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:06 AM
Subject: CFFILE question
How do we do the following:
Create a fixed ASCII text file with <CFFILE>.
How do you specify the picture or format length for a given
column?
marlene
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