export fixed length problem

[Dennis Malen]

Jeff, 

I want to keep the leading blanks in, not take them out.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: export fixed length problem


> 
> --- Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > The -X does not work when you are opening and
> > closing the file. I presented
> > this to the group a couple of weeks ago and Ken and
> > others suggested I use
> > this approach. The problem is only the first field
> > at this point. The rest
> > of the fileds are fine.
> >
>  
> Oh, I guess I missed that thread.  However, I don't
> see how you can get a fixed length export with this
> approach.  I just ran a quick test of export ascii
> with the -a flag and no -X flag and the trailing
> blanks were stripped.
> 
> BTW if you want to remove the leading blanks when you
> do your assignment try the following:
> 
> rc(10)=""{1
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> 
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