Re: READ command in SQR 3 vs. 4

[Greg Gargett <ggargett@SEANET.COM>]

if the record is a fixed length then read the whole thing into one variable and
the rpad spaces to the end to make the data the proper length.

Greg

John Walker wrote:

> I am already doing this.  It's the blanks at the end of the record that I
> need!  As a little more background, the file that I'm reading consists of
> encoded data and I need to preserve all the blanks in order to decode
> properly.
>
>  I would appreciate any other ideas that you have.
>
> Albert Howard <starbukk@concentric.net> on 09/22/98 09:40:05 AM
>
> Please respond to SQR-USERS@USA.NET
>
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> cc:    (bcc: John A. Walker/CEI/FirstEnergy)
> Subject:  Re: READ command in SQR 3 vs. 4
>
> Read the entire record into one variable and use a let $var = substr(...)
> command populate the individual fields. Then you get everything.
> At 07:37 AM 9/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >In SQR Ver 3.0 the manual states when using the READ command, "after being
> >transferred, trailing blanks in the variable are omitted".  This is
> causing
> >me some heartburn as I need to preserve all the characters in the file
> that
> >I am reading in.  Does this same problem occur in SQR Ver 4?  Has anyone
> >else hit this problem and developed a workaround?  I thought of using the
> >length function but I don't know how long the string should be in order to
> >determine if the blanks have been removed.  Thanks in advance for your
> >help.
> >