Thanks John. I had a feeling you would have encountered this sort of stuff.
And thanks for your time, Simon.
All is appreciated.
And thanks in advance, Dr. Hipp, if you act on this...allowing a \0 row
separator in column mode. It would simplify the life of us mainframers.
dvn
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:31 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Don V Nielsen <donvniel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, but it appears that ".mode column" triggers it, and .separator
> does
> > not appear to have any influence in that mode.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, it appears that the row separator (in windows) is a
> > single character. Do you know to specify as the row separator?
> Everything
> > I attempt is taken as literal characters. I've attempted: 0x0D0x0A,
> > 0x0D0A, 0Dx0Ax. Nothing appears to work.
> >
>
> The row separator is specified using the 2nd parameter of the .separator
> command. Example transcript:
>
>
> SQLite version 3.11.0 2016-02-15 17:29:24
> Enter ".help" for usage hints.
> Connected to a transient in-memory database.
> Use ".open FILENAME" to reopen on a persistent database.
> sqlite> .mode column
> sqlite> .separator | -
> sqlite> create table a(one text,two text);
> sqlite> .width 10 10
> sqlite> insert into a values('1a','2a');
> sqlite> insert into a values('1b','2b');
> sqlite> select * from a;
> 1a 2a -1b 2b -sqlite>
>
> Note that the specified column separator is ignored in .mode column, but
> the row separator is not. Also, for fun, note what happens with negative
> widths
>
> sqlite> .width -10 -10
> sqlite> select * from a;
> 1a 2a- 1b 2b-sqlite>
>
> Also, I have looked at the current sqlite3.c source code. In .mode column,
> the space separator character is "hard coded" and so cannot be set to any
> other character.
>
> Lastly, you can specify a "control" character by using a C language escape.
> E.g. (continuing from above examples)
>
> sqlite> .separator - \n
> sqlite> select * from a;
> 1a 2a
> 1b 2b
>
> To address your desire, it would be necessary for the column separator
> character to be honored in .mode column mode and the separator be made a
> 0x00, or \0. If Dr. Hipp were to do this, this would eliminate the column
> separator entirely because \0 would result in "no" character between the
> columns. This appears, to me, to be a rather simple change in shell.c.
>
>
> > dvn
> >
> >
>
> --
> Heisenberg may have been here.
>
> Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/
>
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
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