Specifying Record Delimiter

[pankaj_wolfhunter]

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_name 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]

pa***************@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_name 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_file_name', 'rU')
output = open('export_file_name.conv', 'w')
for line in input:
output.write(line.rstrip('\n') + '\r\n')
HTH,

Dave.

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[pankaj_wolfhunter]

On Jul 23, 8:33 pm, "Dave Hughes" <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] 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_name 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_file_name', 'rU')
output = open('export_file_name.conv', 'w')
for line in input:
output.write(line.rstrip('\n') + '\r\n')

HTH,

Dave.

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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]

On Jul 23, 10:38 am, "[e-mail]"
<[e-mail]:

On Jul 23, 8:33 pm, "Dave Hughes" <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] 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_name 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_file_name', 'rU')
output = open('export_file_name.conv', 'w')
for line in input:
output.write(line.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.