Hi
I read somewhere in this forum that filter commands truncates charecters when we use pipe symbol in version 7.1.
I am using version 7.5 and am facing the same problem.
Is this issue ever resolved ? If so do we need to install any patch for this ?
Please let me know.
Thanks
filter command truncates...is this issue ever resolved ?
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Kaps,
I did a search of "filter" and "truncate" and didn't come up with any matches, so I don't know what you read and where you read it - what is the actual problem you are getting with filter?
The filter does nothing more than call an OS command, so there isn't much that can go wrong there - this hasn't stopped developers from proving me wrong, but at least it makes problems easy to reproduce here.
I did a search of "filter" and "truncate" and didn't come up with any matches, so I don't know what you read and where you read it - what is the actual problem you are getting with filter?
The filter does nothing more than call an OS command, so there isn't much that can go wrong there - this hasn't stopped developers from proving me wrong, but at least it makes problems easy to reproduce here.
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I posted something in the past on the issue - I don't recall the exact character, seems to me to have been a single quote or comma rather than a pipe. 
What I see in 7.0.1 is you put in a long filter command, close the stage and reopen it and the command has been truncated at the offending character.
No clue if it's been fixed in later versions.
What I see in 7.0.1 is you put in a long filter command, close the stage and reopen it and the command has been truncated at the offending character.No clue if it's been fixed in later versions.
-craig
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Thanks Arnd and Craig...
Try to search using the keyword " filter command "....
This is the original post I was talking about...posted by Craig on Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:52 am...
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The Filter can take any O/S command that handles Standard In and Standard Out well. Sort should be one of them.
There is a bug in the version I am running (7.0.1) where filter commands with quotes or pipes get stripped after the first occurance. You can see this by typing a filter command in the stage, closing it and reopening it. If you are a victim of this, you'll see your truncated command the next time you open the stage. For me it means I have to make sure the record delimiter matches the default for sort as I can't pass in a "-t" with mine.
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Try to search using the keyword " filter command "....
This is the original post I was talking about...posted by Craig on Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:52 am...
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The Filter can take any O/S command that handles Standard In and Standard Out well. Sort should be one of them.
There is a bug in the version I am running (7.0.1) where filter commands with quotes or pipes get stripped after the first occurance. You can see this by typing a filter command in the stage, closing it and reopening it. If you are a victim of this, you'll see your truncated command the next time you open the stage. For me it means I have to make sure the record delimiter matches the default for sort as I can't pass in a "-t" with mine.
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