RE: Copying to a Stream File -- RPG400-L

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Hi Kara -

I am trying to copy a physical file to a stream file that will be
imported into another system.  This other system cannot accept carriage
returns or line feeds so I have created a physical file with one field
that is defined as 80 characters long.  The data is formatted so that it
is written out to this file as one long string with a '~' separating
each segment.  The problem is that when the last record is written out,
it does not fill the entire 80 characters of the field.  I can not have
anything after the last '~' - no carriage return, no line feed, no eof
terminator, and not even blanks.  Does anyone have a suggestion?

One brute force solution is to make the field one character, so every character would be a separate record in the file.

If you made it a variable length field with a minimum length of 1 and some reasonable maximum length, that would be better *IF* it would be copied to the stream file correctly.

-- Ken http://www.ke9nr.net/ Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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