Re: Comma Delimited Files

["Hood Louise (app1lxh)" <app1lxh@UPS.COM>]

Tim,

Not to discourage you, Tim, but I tried all yesterday to get a working SQR
that presently produces a PDF to instead give me CSV file and nothing seems
to work like THE BOOK says it should.  According to the language ref book,
you need to have on the command line:

        -printer:EH -EH_CSV

However, the help in Brio Report Builder 6.0 says -EH_CSVONLY instead of
-EH_CSV.  In any case, neither seemed to work for me.  If anyone has any
ideas, you'd have at least two grateful people!!

Running on Oracle 8. . . .

Thanks,

Louise

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Wilkinson [mailto:Tim.Wilkinson@HANCORP.CO.UK]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:40 AM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Comma Delimited Files


Hi all,
       I've now gone from a newbie novice to 42 SQR reports under my belt,
(well 41.75 if my boss read this ;) ) and now they are asking for one to be
output to .csv format!

Now I understand that this requires a command line flag to output to .csv
(-EH_CSV). However, what I would like to know before I kill myself
formatting and looking up how to output in tiny fonts (as its a lot of data
for one line) is does all this information have to be on one line (below a
header) as I suspect or can it be on numerous lines and if so, what are the
implications of this.

I know that with a couple of hours trial and effort I can find all this out
myself, but I would be obliged if someone who has gone through this would
enlighten me and save me a couple of hours of trial and error (I have to get
this particular report out yesterday as per usual). Any hints/tips gleaned
by battle-hardened pros would be appreciated as well.

Once again I feel like the crew of NCC-1701, boldly going where no sane
person has gone before :-)

Thanks in advance,
                  Tim


Tim Wilkinson BSc. Dip Comp.
Analyst Programmer
Hansen Corporation Europe Ltd

Email:  Tim.Wilkinson@hancorp.co.uk
Phone:  01904 566017