Export ASCII -x

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

 FWIW, I have always used  r=\n on ALL my imports and exports and have never
had any issues like you describe
  So my assumption would be it's always required?!?!  (but, I don't like to
assume haha)

 Scott



On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Jeff Harrison <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com>
> > To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> > Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 2:04:14 PM
> > Subject: Export ASCII -x
> >
> [snip]
>
> > Well I finally found what it needed.  So I guess this  turned out to be a
> > cautionary tale not a request for help after  all.
> >
> > 330  -------   -   -   -   -   -    -   -   -   -   -
> > wrtxml ? If:
> >          Then: export ascii myxml=(expname{"") -x r=\n
> > 331  -------    -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -    -
> >         ? If:
> >         Then:  myxml(1)=myline{chr("10") ;write myxml
> > 332  -------   -    -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -    -
> >
> > This caused my file to end up with CR/LF (0d 0a) just what was
> > required.  What weird logic is causing this but here it is if anyone
> > else is looking for a solution.
> >
> > Nancy
>
> Nancy, you still needed the chr("10") even after you added the r=\n ?  I am
> not
> able to test this at the moment, but I would think that this would give you
> CR
> then CR LF (oa od oa).  If it says that the record delimiter is a new line
> by
> default, then it sounds like the documentation should be updated to reflect
> the
> fact that you need to specify the r=\n to get the newline.
>
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
>
>
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