On 15/05/12 20:50, Wjhonson wrote: > > Information Flavor > No spaces in the fields, nothing in them at all, just a line of attribute > marks with nothing in between. > Your trick below *does* work by the way, and it's essentially what I did. > I just set Rec(0) to nothing before the MATWRITE and that did it. > > But I was also surprised that Andy's trick of just matreading and then > matwriting didn't work. > You have to set Rec(0) to nothing in between
I've just realised WHY that probably is ... Rec(0) is full of FMs ... If you dimension your array to hold every element of the record *without* overflow, it'll work fine. I bet the MATWRITE tests if (0) is empty, and if it's got overflow in it ... Cheers, Wol > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> > To: u2-users <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> > Sent: Tue, May 15, 2012 12:40 pm > Subject: Re: [U2] Trim trailing attributes off records > > > On 11/05/12 17:36, Wjhonson wrote: > > I thought that too. > Tried that one. > What it actually does is store all the trailing attributes in the "header" > and > hen append them back to the record when it writes it out. > Universe 10.3 > > hat flavour? That ALWAYS worked for me on PI. > Let's say your dict declares up to, say, field 20 and you know there > shouldn't* be anything beyond it. > Sounds actually, like you are in PI mode so ... > eclare your MAT as 20 long :-) > dd a line before the write which says > IF CONVERT( REC(0), @FM:" ", "") EQ "" THEN REC(0) = "" ELSE PRINT > Record ":ID:" contains extra data!" > So basically, you're dumping what you don't want into element 0. The > onvert checks that it really is nothing before zeroing it. > I'm guessing it's not working for you because somehow there are actually > paces in those fields you think are blank (ED gets rid of trailing > paces ...) > You can pull the same stunt for PICK mode, just remember the extra > ntries will end up in the last element of the array. > Cheers, > ol >> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: andy baum <andyb...@yahoo.co.uk> > To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> > Sent: Fri, May 11, 2012 6:30 am > Subject: Re: [U2] Trim trailing attributes off records > > > How about :- > OPEN 'FILENAME' TO FILEVAR ELSE > STOPM 'Cannot open FILENAME' > END > > IM REC(500) > > ELECT FILEVAR > LOOP > WHILE READNEXT ID > MATREADU REC FROM FILEVAR,ID THEN > MATWRITE REC TO FILEVAR,ID > END > REPEAT > > ND > > ATWRITE trims trailing blank attributes as it writes the data away > > heers, > Andy > > > From: Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com> > o: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > ent: Thursday, 10 May 2012, 23:13 > ubject: [U2] Trim trailing attributes off records > > > iven that you have a file with thousands of records, each with dozens of > railing attributes which are empty. > How can you pick up the file and drop it back down with all those empties > rimmed off? > __ _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
