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Re: Help creating a pipe delimited file

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/17/2014 11:13 AM, Richard Reeve wrote:
1. There are multiple record types (with unique formats per
record type).

The classic one-off is to use SQL:
select empno concat '|' concat trim(empname) concat '|'...
from employees
order by empno...

I think for single-format CSVs (and TSVs, etc.), SQL is a classic
one-off technique. For my taste, it becomes unwieldy once you have to
do multiple formats interspersed in the same output, though.

John Y.

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