Mike,
Every call to write, you pass %size(buffer) as the number of bytes to
write. The length of the prior record, plus the number of blanks
preceeding the next record should equal 256 bytes... You should try to
count the actual number of bytes that you put into buffer, and pass that
in place of the %size(buffer). This does get tricky when dealing with
DBCS or certain Unicode CCSIDs, but should be pretty clear cut with
SBCS.
Hth,
-Eric DeLong
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 3:41 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Weird problem creating IFS file
I am using Scott's documentation to create IFS files. I finally have
something working, however after the first row each line has over 150
characters of extra spaces before the data. What makes it stranger is
that
there isn't any consistency on how many spaces there are.
Here is a snipit of the file:
"Transaction Date","Account Desc.","Transaction
Desc","Account","Debit","Credit"
08/01/2010,"SERV CHG-SODA SALES","Ribfest-F&B Wk1
sales
J","622-49862-345130",.00,152.95
08/01/2010,"SERV CHG-CAN SODA SALES","Ribfest-F&B Wk1 sales
J","622-49862-345138",.00,9357.38
The code I use to create this is as follows:
D eof C const(x'0d25')
P WriteCsv B
D WriteCsv PI
D buffer S 256A
/free
buffer = %trim(%char(pTranDate:*usa)) + ',"' + %trim(pAcctDesc) +
'","' + %trim(pTranDesc) + '","' + %trim(pAcct) + '",' +
%trim(%editc(pDbAmt:'L')) + ',' +
%trim(%editc(pCrAmt:'L')) + eof;
if (write(fd:%addr(buffer):%size(buffer)) < %size(buffer));
abEnd = *on;
return;
endif;
return;
/end-free
P WriteCsv E
In debug, the spaces are not there. Any ideas?
--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me
midrange.com
