Export ASCII -x

[Nancy Palmquist]

Well I appreciate the testing you both did.  But if you read the fp 
docs, it clearly indicates that it will provide a NEW LINE to an export 
with -x.

So I should not have to put the r=\n or do anything special to get the 
file format I wanted.

I posted my processing and it just did the EXPORT line, then posted one 
string to one field in the EXPORT.

Then it did a WRITE.  Very simple.

I wanted it to properly add the NEW LINE it indicated was part of its 
output.  But it added nothing.

When I tried to help by adding it to the string, it added an additional 
0d.  So it looked like it was double spaced.

If I was writing or reading a string of fixed length, lets say 100 
characters and I wanted the New Line to be appended as documented, that 
was my complaint.  It took many experiments to get the right combination 
of CR LF to get a proper NEW line on each record.  I did not want to 
mess with a field delimiter, since it was not required.

But this was very interesting, don't you think?

Nancy

On 11/19/2010 1:38 PM, Bruce Easton wrote:
> On 11/19/10 12:48 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
>> On 11/19/2010 10:58 AM, Bruce Easton wrote:
>>> OK - that's all fine and dandy, *BUT*, after re-reading what Nancy had
>>> written below,
>>> I now wonder if there is a difference between my fp 5.0.14 and whatever
>>> version she is using or maybe it could be *nix vs. windows for the
>>> results I got for putting r=\n after the -X (which didn't work in that
>>> order for me whereas it seems to have worked for her on her line 330
>>> shown below).
>> I would have thought, and this agrees with what you just pointed out the
>> manual says, that "-X", without any "r=", should result in NO record
>> delimiter, no LF or CR, just like a filepro key file.
>>
> Yes - it definitely does.  But in the part of my reply (to myself) that
> you cut above, I had tested:
>
> r=\n -X
>
> verses
>
> -X  r=\n
>
> where, in the latter case, for me on Linux fp5.0.14, the r=\n was
> ignored, whereas Nancy's code shown with that same order worked for her.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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