So, I did submit R:DCC request the other day and was told that the request was accepted and would be designated as an enhancement. Hopefully the new on/off setting or a function will put this issue to rest for good. Thank you for all of your help to date.
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James
On 11/9/2023 10:57 AM,
[email protected] wrote:
This thread started ringing bells in my gray matter because this trailing blank issue has been around for years. In the following list of links from the archive, the first one from myself is from 2015, wherein I lament the age of the particular behavior.The few links after include pertinent thread responses and also one thread from James Kim regarding the issue and the subsequent response from Razzak for his personal workaround solution. I would still be in favor of a DB setting to SET TRAIL ON/OFF in order to be able to provide a uniform and expected value for a space that would work on all platforms. I know there are other ASCII and EXTENDED ASCII chars that mimic the Char(32), but as was discussed many times before, ALL systems do not digest them as genuine SPACE char. When you use non-breaking-space in HTML " ", when the browser renders it to display, you can copy the resulting text and test the non-breaking-space and it is converted by the renderer to CHAR(32), as an example.Anyway, I knew there was ancient discussions about this and you may find the links helpful, or not, your mileage may vary.https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42411.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02917.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02920.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02925.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02928.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02933.html
--On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 4:29:49 PM UTC-4 James W. Kim, CPA, MBA wrote:
-- create 50 x 3 block without truncating blank spacesI'm trying to generate a text file shaped like a rectangle, where each row is of equal length and includes blank spaces. My aim is to create a rectangle that consists of 3 rows, each with 50 columns. However, I'm encountering an issue where the blank spaces are being truncated in the resulting text file. Does anyone have a reliable method for crafting a rectangular text box that preserves all blank spaces without trimming them?
I am currently using version X.5 build 10.5.5.20615
clear all var
set var vSpc TEXT = (char(32))
set var vfile text = ('test'+ format(.#date,'_YYYYMMDD')+ '.txt')
SET VAR vline01 TEXT = (SFIL(.vSpc,50))
SET VAR vline02 TEXT = (SFIL(.vSpc,50))
SET VAR vline03 TEXT = (SFIL(.vSpc,50))
set var vline01 = (sput(.vline01, 'DATA',1))
set var vline02 = (sput(.vline02, 'DATA',45))
set var vline03 = (sput(.vline03, 'DATA',30))
set var vifexist integer = (chkfile(.vfile))
if vifexist = 1 then; delete .vfile; endif
output .vfile
WRITE .vline01 USING '%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%'
WRITE .vline02 USING '%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%'
WRITE .vline03 USING '%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%'
output screen
launch .vfile
return
Thank you in advance,
James Kim
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