Fw: Accessing FP data from external programs (MS Assess)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Phil Hausman (Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:19:02 -0500):
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> Thanks to those who responded and sorry to those who I apparently
> confused. Let me try to make the question much simpler.   If I have
> a prc table that assigns a value to variable aa and that value is
> "smith", is there a way to have that value returned to the unix
> command line when the prc table is done running so that I would see
> the following:
> # /appl/fp/dreport myfile -f myprc -s recordone
> # smith

Export the value to a file.

MYFILE=/tmp/$$
/appl/fp/dreport myfile -f myprc -s recordone -r $MYFILE
MYRESULT=`cat $MYFILE`

In the processing, use the export:

    export ascii out=(@PM) r=\n -x
    out[1] = "smith"

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