I believe I can make this work, because the last data element for each employee record is at position 489. thus I can append the required hard blanks with SPUT at position 490 to get the required 512 length.
You have all be VERY helpful ... as always! ;-) _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:38 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Stripping "blanks" off the end of file lines Oh wow, if Dennis is right then that would be a problem.... If this is a fixed-length file, with everything in the same "columns", then you could create 2 variables of 250 each and then concatenate them together. But if the individual data elements are variable in length then that wouldn't work ... Karen Damon, I just checked the docs. SFIL only works to 500 characters! Dennis
