Export file and the use of Append -a

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Dennis Malen wrote:
| 
| Then how does one create a fixed length file and append to it.

I'm not Ken, but . . .

  Then: fi = "/tmp/fixed_length_ascii.txt"
  Then: export ascii out=(fi) -a
  Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & "\n"

or, if you want to export entire records:

  Then: dim record[1](nnn) ' where "nnn" is the filePro record length
  Then: fi = "/tmp/fixed_length_ascii.txt"
  Then: export ascii out=(fi) -a
  Then: out(1) = record["1"] & "\n"

On Windows you'd want to end the assignment to out(1) with:

  & "\r" { "\n".

Bob

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