Steve,
In this case I advise to make use of the special report functionality 1. Create a (temp) table with a text column of 300 characters a. Think about adding extra columns for sorting and so on b. Put all the necessary information into this table. 2. Create a report a. Put the column of the created tabel in the detail line, remove the rest like headings and so on. b. Choose option File | Print to text file setup c. Choose file type fixed length (300) d. Move the column in the detailline from available controls to selected controls 3. Print the report using the statement: PRINT <reportname> WHERE <condition> ORDER BY <column(s> OPTION TXT |FILENAME <filename> Hope this helps. Tony From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Hartmann Sent: vrijdag 14 juni 2013 0:39 To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Space filling when using the Write statement. I am creating a fixed length export file with a header and trailer. Every record has to be exactly 300 characters long. When I use the write statement, even with the sfil function it was truncating the spaces on the end. To solve that, I added an underscore as the 300th character. We are supposed to be in production now and during testing we had no problems with the underscore. Now they are saying that it is a problem. Does anyone have a suggestion in windows on how to create a 300 character long record with spaces through the last character. Steve Steve [email protected] _____
