Fw: Export file and the use of Append -a

[Dennis Malen]

Thank's Bob,

The correct answer is to use chr("10") and not "\n".

It works great!!!!

Thanks again for reconfirming how powerful and versatile filePro really is.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Export file and the use of Append -a


> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:23:36PM -0400, Dennis Malen wrote:
> | Still have the problem of the append -a with fixed length. I am able to
> | append but it does not create a new line for each new append.
> |
> | pn="/tmp/rnx/rnx"{ex{xlate(@td,"/",""){".wp"
> |
> | export ascii rnf=(pn) -a
> |
> | a(10)=@rn;b(9)=6;c(40)=ww;d(40)=27;e(40)="";f(40)=28;g(2)=29;h(10)=13
> |
> | rnf(1)=a&b&c&d&e&f&g&h;write rnf;close rnf
> |
> | Do I need one of the following after &h above?:
> | 1.&"\n" or
> | 2.&chr("10")
>
> You need to use your option #2 - add &chr{"10").
>
> | If anyone can confirm if this is what is to be done to add a new line
please
> | let me know.
> |
> | Ken Brody seemed to say that filepro takes care of the new line if you
use
> | an append -a and that nothing more is necessary. That does not seem to
be
> | the case.
>
> Ken was correcting my incorrect instructions to you where
> I said to end the assignment with & "\n".  He corrected
> that to be end each line to be exported with:
>
>    & chr("10")
>
> What he further said was that filePro takes care of adding
> (or not adding) a carriage return before the linefeed,
> according to the system it's being run on.
>
> Bob
>
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