Specifying Record Delimiter

[pankaj_wolfhunter@yahoo.co.in]

Greetings,
Some time back I got some good advice from this group.
Again got stuck with something.

I am using export utility to store data to flat files.

For now I am using the following:

EXPORT TO export_file_nam e OF DEL MODIFIED BY NOCHARDEL
TIMESTAMPFORMAT =\"MMM DD YYYY HH:MM:SS:UUTT\" COLDEL# select query

Can I change the default (newline) record delimiter to something of my
own choice?

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

[Dave Hughes]

Re: Specifying Record Delimiter

pankaj_wolfhunt er@yahoo.co.in wrote:

Greetings,
Some time back I got some good advice from this group.
Again got stuck with something.
>
I am using export utility to store data to flat files.
>
For now I am using the following:
>
EXPORT TO export_file_nam e OF DEL MODIFIED BY NOCHARDEL
TIMESTAMPFORMAT =\"MMM DD YYYY HH:MM:SS:UUTT\" COLDEL# select query
>
Can I change the default (newline) record delimiter to something of my
own choice?

As far as I can tell: no, you can't change the row delimiter (only the
column and string delimiters). If you're on Linux you could always use
the dos2unix / unix2dos utilities to convert the file afterward
(sometimes these are called d2u or u2d). There's probably Windows
versions of these too, somewhere.

Alternatively you could write a quick script to handle the conversion.
For example, under Python, the following would do the trick to convert
to DOS (CRLF) line endings:

input = open('export_fi le_name', 'rU')
output = open('export_fi le_name.conv', 'w')
for line in input:
output.write(li ne.rstrip('\n') + '\r\n')


HTH,

Dave.

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[pankaj_wolfhunter@yahoo.co.in]

Re: Specifying Record Delimiter

On Jul 23, 8:33 pm, "Dave Hughes" <d...@waveform. plus.comwrote:

pankaj_wolfhun. ..@yahoo.co.in wrote:

Greetings,
Some time back I got some good advice from this group.
Again got stuck with something.

>

I am using export utility to store data to flat files.

>

For now I am using the following:

>

EXPORT TO export_file_nam e OF DEL MODIFIED BY NOCHARDEL
TIMESTAMPFORMAT =\"MMM DD YYYY HH:MM:SS:UUTT\" COLDEL# select query

>

Can I change the default (newline) record delimiter to something of my
own choice?

>
As far as I can tell: no, you can't change the row delimiter (only the
column and string delimiters). If you're on Linux you could always use
the dos2unix / unix2dos utilities to convert the file afterward
(sometimes these are called d2u or u2d). There's probably Windows
versions of these too, somewhere.
>
Alternatively you could write a quick script to handle the conversion.
For example, under Python, the following would do the trick to convert
to DOS (CRLF) line endings:
>
input = open('export_fi le_name', 'rU')
output = open('export_fi le_name.conv', 'w')
for line in input:
output.write(li ne.rstrip('\n') + '\r\n')
>
HTH,
>
Dave.
>
--

Thanks Dave.
Even I figured out after googling that we might not able to define a
row delimiter.
Just wanted to confirm. I already wrote a script on unix side to
handle the conversion.
Thanks again.

[Ray]

Re: Specifying Record Delimiter

On Jul 23, 10:38 am, "pankaj_wolfhun ...@yahoo.co.in "
<pankaj_wolfhun ...@yahoo.co.in wrote:

On Jul 23, 8:33 pm, "Dave Hughes" <d...@waveform. plus.comwrote:
>
>
>

pankaj_wolfhun. ..@yahoo.co.in wrote:

Greetings,
Some time back I got some good advice from this group.
Again got stuck with something.

>

I am using export utility to store data to flat files.

>

For now I am using the following:

>

EXPORT TO export_file_nam e OF DEL MODIFIED BY NOCHARDEL
TIMESTAMPFORMAT =\"MMM DD YYYY HH:MM:SS:UUTT\" COLDEL# select query

>

Can I change the default (newline) record delimiter to something of my
own choice?

>

As far as I can tell: no, you can't change the row delimiter (only the
column and string delimiters). If you're on Linux you could always use
the dos2unix / unix2dos utilities to convert the file afterward
(sometimes these are called d2u or u2d). There's probably Windows
versions of these too, somewhere.

>

Alternatively you could write a quick script to handle the conversion.
For example, under Python, the following would do the trick to convert
to DOS (CRLF) line endings:

>

input = open('export_fi le_name', 'rU')
output = open('export_fi le_name.conv', 'w')
for line in input:
output.write(li ne.rstrip('\n') + '\r\n')

>

HTH,

>

Dave.

>

--

>
Thanks Dave.
Even I figured out after googling that we might not able to define a
row delimiter.
Just wanted to confirm. I already wrote a script on unix side to
handle the conversion.
Thanks again.

I highly recommend you get a good editor to use on the DOS side that
can do all this stuff transparently. I use a Java-based editor called
jEdit that has an FTP plugin that lets you treat FTP like another file
system.