[Alt-255] was a real fave back in the day. I still find it working in various Windows-based applications.
Works in Outlook. Didn’t Microsoft introduce a different [Alt-xxx] for HdSpace in Windows 95? Bruce From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 6:51 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file It is really funny how inconsistent various viewers are about interpreting LF and CR. LF is a linefeed which originally created a new line. CR originally just returned the cursor to the beginning of the line. And Microsoft (or whoever) made a major mistake in not retaining 255 as a blank character. From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 8:43 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file What do you mean, Dennis? See my response below (I'll strip all posts and just show it). I tried just a 13, just a 10, and a 13/10. Putting a 13 in there anywhere created a double cr karen -----Original Message----- From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 8:34 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fixed field file How about adding a CR character at the end? 2 cR’s may not be a problem, it is the LF that makes a new line. Dennis McGrath 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
