Dropped Fields in Export

[Mike Schwartz]

> Currently I do the export in record number order.  So wonder if I add a
string
> to record #1's empty fields like "EMPTY" and remove it later by replacing
> "EMPTY" with "".
> 
> Do you know if the output export file's structure is defined on what the
> actually data looks like from the first record it processes, and holds
true for all
> subsequent records?  My documents doesn't talk about any of this...
> 
> Thanks, Stanley

     As I recall, each record gets truncated if the last fields in that
record are empty.  So doing putting "EMPTY" only at the end of record #1
won't help.

     AFAIK, this is a problem only with filePro's EXPORT command.  If you
create the file any other way, I don't think you will have this problem.
For example, see functions like:  Writeline(), CREATE(), OPEN(), READ(),
READLINE(), WRITE().

     Stuart Werner's filepro training books (Developer reference series)
have good sections describing how to create output files using several
different methods.

Mike