Thank you Karen, Dennis and Lawrence. All excellent feedback. I"ll work through your responses and get something that the IRS will accept.
Kudos to all!! _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:30 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Stripping "blanks" off the end of file lines << And then use SPUT to place the various data items in their required position. The last piece written is a "P" at position 500. Positions 501 - 512 should be blanks, as created by the SFIL above, but instead are being stripped off. Any idea why? >> Whenever a text expression is evaluated, R:Base implicitly removes trailing space characters. 99% of the time this is what you want, and the fact that R:Base takes care of it for you it a big help. The remaining 1% of the time, however. . . I suggest you build your "holding" expression as (SFIL(CHAR(32), 512) + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)) With the CRLF on the end of the line, R:Base will not strip it (at least, I don't THINK it will). Now, after you've used SPUT to create the record use: WRITE .vLine CONTINUE to write it to your file. The CONTINUE tells R:Base NOT to add the lineend characters itself (otherwise you'd wind up with blank lines between every two lines in your file). -- Larry
