Hi Gary, What kind of data do the specs say should be in position 512? If it is a filler, then try putting an x in 512, Perhaps they can't read a hard blank and call it invalid.
Bernie Lis ----- Original Message ----- From: Gray, Damon To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:21 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Stripping "blanks" off the end of file lines LOL!!! This is getting to be pretty silly. I'm getting an error from the guvment now that says there is an invalid character at position 512 (the hard blank) and then lists all of the valid characters. So, the SPUT at 512 was a great suggestion, but I'm going to have to attack this from a different direction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:57 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Stripping "blanks" off the end of file lines You don't have to work that hard. Build up your text string and then use my sput suggestion to drop a hard space at position 255 and you are done! It is dead simple. You will wind up with soft blanks with a hard blank at the end. RBASE automatically fills a string with spaces when you sput beyond the length of the string. Example: Set var vtmp = 'xxx' Set var vtmp = (SPUT(.vTmp,char(255),512)) This will create a string of 3 x's followed by 508 spaces followed by a hard space. Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gray, Damon Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:47 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Stripping "blanks" off the end of file lines 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
