export pipe delimited

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Subject: export pipe delimitted

 

Client wants some select records sent to them using pipe delim format.

 

I think I'm fairly close on the output processing, but it's all hard coded.

I want to make this where the user select the records by entering a client
number or a range of client numbers.

 

This calls for a second output processing? 

 

So, eventually I can put this on a menu that would call something like

 

/u/appl/fp/rreport file -f export -u -a -v clientsel

 

In clientsel, I need to put what exactly that would ask the user for a
beginning client number and ending client number?

 

Also, is it customary in a pipe delim file to have a pipe at the end of the
record?

 

So, should it look like:

 

John|Smith|1234|field1|field2|

 

or just:

 

John|Smith|1234|field1|field2    ??

 

thanks in advance for any guidance

 

 

Using -v sort/select processing, as previously mentioned, one can us start
and ending numbers as long as they are contiguous.  I have a number of -v
processes that also use an array to hold the values wanted.  This method
allow for selecting specific client's without having to run them one at a
time.

 

 

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting

rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
  

 

 

 

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