export ascii & write command

Jeff Harrison Jeff.Harrison at Epixweb.com
Thu Jun 3 09:51:08 PDT 2004


Dennis Malen wrote:
> 
> Can I use the following two write commands when creating an 
> ascii export
> file or must I loop back to the original ascii export command 
> and write the
> second line. This assumes that both conditions are met below.
> 
> 10  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       ~ If: 6 ne ""               'ss#     rec#
>       Then: rnx(1)=6;rnx(2)=@rn;ct(5,.0,g)=ct+"1";write rnx
> 11  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       ~ If: 8 ne ""               'ss#     rec#
>       Then: rnx(1)=8;rnx(2)=@rn;ct=ct+"1";write rnx;end
> 12  -------  ------------------------------------------
>           If:
>        Then: end
> 
> Bottom line can I use two write commands without going back up to:
> 
> "export ascii rnx=/tmp/asciirn r=\r r=\n -x -a" which is at 
> the top of the
> processing.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
> 

Yes, I have seen it done the way you suggest with no ill effects.  My
personal style is to loop back to the export ascii line, but I believe that
you can do it this way if you wish.

I suppose one drawback would be the fact that there may be a case where none
of your if conditions are true - if that happens then you will still get a
blank line in your export file - probably not what you want.

Jeff Harrison
jeff.harrison at epixweb.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport - The fastest and easiest ways to generate
code for filepro exports and imports.  Demos available upon request.


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