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Sounds like you want your cake and to eat it too. I don't think this is possible. You have already nixed all the ways (known to me anyway) of dealing with the quotation marks. Thank you, Mitch Lawrence Senior Applications Analyst - Advanced Report Writer General Financials Support CHRISTUS Information Management Tel 361.881.3408 Fax 361.888.6117 Mob 361.549.8456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone has "Made your day", send them a Spirit Buck! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ganesh Seshadri Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] ? NPR R/W: removing quotes in download files All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== we have numerous instances where we download data and send them off as data files, usually comma separated. i have had several requests for minor changes - eg. semicolon or tab separated instead of comma which is straightforward. the one that is cumbersome is when some requests want the data in quotes while others dont want quotes. it's very cumbersome to edit every definition and reset each to DAT=FREE or DAT=INT. does anyone have suggestions on how this can be done without this laborious process? i prefer not to explicitly format and print the lines in a macro because it makes it hard for others to maintain the report, so this should be with meditech's standard strategy for download files ie., FD 44, RL nnn, SFF/EFF NO etc. i would even have considered duplicating each line, printing once with quotes and once without, and line checking the part that i dont need for a given download based on a selection condition, but this will add an extra null field at the beginning of the record. tia, regards, ganesh seshadri, indiana regional _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
