Export file and the use of Append -a

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0400, Ken Brody wrote:
| Bob Stockler wrote:
| [...]
| >   Then: fi = "/tmp/fixed_length_ascii.txt"
| >   Then: export ascii out=(fi) -a
| >   Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & "\n"
| 
| ITYM:
| 
|    Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & chr("10")
| 
| (Unless you want the literal backslash-en to be exported?)

Yeah, thanks.  It's been a while since I've used EXPORT,
and my habit then had been to set nl(1,*,g) = chr("10")
in the subroutine that initialized the table.

I jes forgot.

| > On Windows you'd want to end the assignment to out(1) with:
| > 
| >   & "\r" { "\n".
| 
| Not necessary, as EXPORT ASCII already does the NL-->CRLF translation,
| just as IMPORT ASCII does CRLF-->NL.

There I was just ignorant.  I'm not a Windows f^Hman.

Bob

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