...or use fixed length reads, concatonate them into a buffer and $PIECE them off (separator by space) into convenient lengths for storage or display. Most of the M engines out there can handle 510 character strings, so 250 character fixed reads (READ X#250) will do well for input. Process down the BUFFER you are extracting until the length of the BUFFER gets shorter than 2 times the length of the output you want, refill the buffer with fixed reads until you get an X returned that is not 250 characters in length.
This is pretty easy stuff for MUMPS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maury Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH looses data for strings>255 characters awk! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hardhats Sourceforge" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:24 AM Subject: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH looses data for strings>255 characters > OK, I'm frustrated. > > My transcriptionists are using a wordprocessors that > automatically wrap lines. Thus a paragraph is stored > in a text file as one long line. This is often longer > than 255 characters. I was under the impression that > FTG^%ZISH was aware of this limitation and would wrap > the line when uploading strings. > > It doesn't. > > This means that I now have many progress notes that > have been erroneously truncated. > > Any thoughts? > > Kevin > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
