can you output data to a text file?

james garner · Post by **james garner** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:59 pm

I'm kind of new at this still and was wondering if there was a way to output data in a fixed width format to a text file?

bollinenik · Post by **bollinenik** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:39 pm

Yeah, you just need to define metadata in sequential file give the file extension as .txt at end of file name and properties should be Fixedwidth
Delimiter=none
record delimited= newline
and try to define metadata exactly as Data length and give data type as char so that is going to be fixed width file.

james garner · Post by **james garner** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:44 pm

thanks for the response, so your saying i can use a sequential file stage as my output then?

bollinenik · Post by **bollinenik** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:45 pm

yeah, you can use sequential file stage, just need to take care about file properties as fixed width file properties.

james garner · Post by **james garner** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:52 pm

thanks, didnt know that!

james garner · Post by **james garner** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:53 pm

thanks, didnt know that!

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:03 pm

bollinenik wrote:give the file extension as .txt at end of file name

Actually, you can use whatever extension you like or none at all, makes absolutely no difference.

james garner · Post by **james garner** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:06 pm

for some reason i thought they were only used for input files.. i just tried it and it worked perfectly, thanks again!

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:07 pm

Like pretty much all passive stages, they "go both ways". So to speak.