Export ASCII R=\N -X

[Nancy Palmquist]

John,

The r=\n means add a CR/LF which is your two extra characters.

You want to leave that out and just have:

export ascii file=XXXXXXX -x

That will do it.  Make sure the variable that you write into the file is 
exactly 750 characters.

Nancy

On 1/15/2020 2:32 PM, JohnMac via Filepro-list wrote:
> Running filepro 5.8 on windows10
>
>   
>
> Creating ascii fixed length file for IRS which must be 750 characters
>
> Using export ascii fil = C:\appl\test-file. R=\N -X  it creates the file
> required
>
>   
>
> To check the file, I created a non-filepro file linked to the file
> C:\appl\test-file which is 1 field,  752,* instead of 750
>
> It loads the data to view and verify. Had to add 2 characters to the
> non-filepro fixed length file to view the data file otherwise it wraps the
> records.
>
> Are the extra 2 characters  "-|"   it loads at the end of the file a
> carriage return and line feed or what are they and how do they affect the
> length of the data file?
>
>   
>
> John McNaughton
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