Here is a short version. begin; set file="pipedelim.txt" open file:"R" ;open with read only so I don't mess it up set $ztrap="eof" ;set error trap to catch end of file error for do . use file read record . use $p w !,record,! . for i=1:1:$length(record,"|") d . . w $piece(record,"|",i)_" " ; eof ; s $ztrap="" c file q
Mark "SK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I need to open and read a flat pipe delimited file into a variable in > Cache/M. Can someone please help me out with this? I know how to open a > file, but not how to read it's contents. > > Thanks in advance. > > Sk. > > > >
