Re: Creating CSV files on the IFS

On Wednesday 14 November 2001 5:04 pm, Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)
wrote:
[snip]
> I could manually dump the data, trim spaces, and add commas into a
> single field work file that I could then run through CPYTOSTMF. I would
> rather not do that,

Hi Loyd

Well, maybe I've saved you the bother ;-) My CRTCSVDTA tool does just
that, ready for CPYTOSTMF. Trailing spaces trimmed, dates in numeric
fields converted to proper dates and a few other formatting options.

> if OS400 has a command to correctly trim the
> character data when creating a CSV file. Well, it doesn't know it's a
> CSV file, but if you change the DTAFMT parameter to *DLM, it should be
> smart enough to trim the data (being the whole point of delimiting it).
> I understand that using DTAFMT(*FIXED) would preserve trailing spaces,
> and it should.
>
> Loyd

Agreed. Apart from the need to convert our own Lilian dates to something
spreadsheets could easily understand, trailing spaces was one of the main
things I wanted in a conversion tool - hence writing my own. Grab the
code at http://www.dbg400.net/crtcsv.html

Regards, Martin
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