header records on an export file

[Jeff Harrison]

--- "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> wrote:

> Jeff Harrison wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > I think the problem is that you have two different
> > "export" statements in your processing.  I don't
> think
> > that is allowed.
> 
> It's allowed, I'm doing it.
> 
>

Really?  I guess I'm too used to version 4.8  I'm
pretty sure you can't do it with that version.
 
[snip]
> The problem was not just making a header line that
> comes before the first 
> data line and is not itself a data line,
> The problem was that the header line needs to be a
> different number of 
> fields from the following data loines and fp is
> providing trailing empty 
> fields on the first line which he can't have.

[snip]

Yes, you are right it would do that.  I was thinking,
but failed to mention that you could use export ascii
and export the entire line as the first element, but
as you say, you might just as well use the file io
commands then.

I'll eagerly await the results of your experiments :-)

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

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