Well, Albert's solution ALMOST works. It does indeed put a carriage return
exactly where I want it, so it retains the 675 blank spaces at the end.
However, it puts an extra carriage return (therefore a blank row) between each
row of data. Is there a way to suppress that, like a "write.... continue"
would? Here's the relevant code and how different "vCRLF" variables evaluated:
SET WIDTH 1500
SET VAR vCRLF = (CHAR(013))
SET HEADINGS OFF
SET SELMARGIN 1
OUTPUT MIB.TXT
SELECT ( LJS(SGET(policy_no,12,1),50) + LJS(tmpUniqueText,50) + LJS(ssn,9) +
LJS(firstname,50) +
+ ....... + (SFIL(' ',675)) + .vCRLF )=1450 +
FROM tmpMIB
OUTPUT SCREEN
Value of vCRLF:
char(013) + char(010) this puts a blank row between each data row
char(013) same as above
char(010) does not retain the blank spaces, does a carriage return right
after last data
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Berry <[email protected]>
To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 6:18 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file
Would something like this work to create the line? Assumption is no CRLF
at the end of the variable .vDataLine.
SELECT (DataLine + (SFIL(' ',675)) + .vCRLF) FROM ...
Albert
On 1/4/2015 1:14 PM, Karen Tellef wrote:
I need to create a file with fixed field lengths. Rather than doing
SFIL/SPUT I did a "select" statement and it works great and is easy to
code, except...
I need to have 675 blank spaces at the end of each line and I
can't figure out how to do that using a "select" statement. Has
anyone done that, or do I need to use SFIL/SPUT. According to my
notes, if I use SFIL/SPUT I'll have to use a cursor and then do
something like this (and thanks to whoever originally posted this code
and I saved it):
--Add CarriageReturn/LineFeed charaters to the line
Set var vDataLine = (SPUT(.vDataLine,.vCRLF,.vPastEnd))
--Make sure no trash data exists beyond CR/LF
Set var vDataLine = (SGET(.vDataLine,..vTotalLength,1))
--Write the line, telling RBASE not to add its own CRLF
WRITE .vDataLine CONTINUE
Karen
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