Export field separator question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Don Coleman wrote:
> > Using export ascii
> > I need to export data to an alien app. whose developer is asking for a
> > field separator of a lower case y with two dots above the character
> > which they say is Char 253.  How do I structure my export statement to
> > use this as in:
> > 
> > export ascii reads=(ZA)  r=\n f=???
> 
> Have you considered "f=253"?

I wouldn't have considered that, since, clearly (:-), that means "use
as the field separator (the first character of the string in) field
253".

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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