Quotes added in writing to a sequential file

[Ragunathan Gunasekaran]

Hi ,
I am selecting a column that is varchar(255) in an oracle table and writing that to a sequential file. I have left the default setting as it is in the sequential page of the stage.
I am using unix like records and hence selected unix in the option buttons given
I am finding a Quote added to the column value in the sequential file ie "xxxxx" instead of xxxxx. Since i am using this value in the down stream processing i am facing a lot of string mismatch issues while i try to compare this with some literals.
But when i view through the datastage data viewer in the sequential file stage ,there seems to be no quotes Any suggestions on what shall be done

[chulett]

Nothing is wrong. Quotes are normal for string data in sequential file data and should not be causing problems in your 'downstream' processing. The data viewer doesn't show them to you because they are delimiters, not part of the data.

If for some reason you really don't want them in the file, change the Quote Character in the Sequential File stage from " to 000.

[MOHAMMAD.ISSAQ]

It's coming because of the default Quote ' " ' character present in the output file.
In format tab give quote character as '000'.

I think this will definitely resolve ur problem.

[Ragunathan Gunasekaran]

Yes that works a lot but what is the character 000 means ? Is that means space?

[Ragunathan Gunasekaran]

Yes that works a lot but what is the character 000 means ? Is that means space?

[chulett]

No, it means you don't want any quote character used. Check the help or try to leave the field empty.

[ray.wurlod]

Technically it means to use the ASCII NUL character (0x00) as the quote character. This is effectively using a zero-length string ("") as the quote character.