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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

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 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.

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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