copy toend of file marker

Hello,

when exporting data with copy to the file gets a hex 1a byte appended.

Is it possible to create a sdf file without his byte added ?

Thanks
Andreas

Andreas

> when exporting data with copy to the file gets a hex 1a byte appended.
> Is it possible to create a sdf file without his byte added ?

After creating the file, open it, move to the end byte - 1, write a byte, cl
ose the file.
Eg
nHandle := FOpen( 'sdffile.txt', FO_READWRITE + FO_EXCLUSIVE )
FS( nHandle, -1, FS_END )
FWrite( nHandle, CHR(32), 1 )
FClose( nHandle )

--
HTH
Steve Quinn

Stephen Quinn schrieb:

> Andreas
>
> 
>
>
> After creating the file, open it, move to the end byte - 1, write a byte, 
close the file.
> Eg
> nHandle := FOpen( 'sdffile.txt', FO_READWRITE + FO_EXCLUSIVE )
> FS( nHandle, -1, FS_END )
> FWrite( nHandle, CHR(32), 1 )
> FClose( nHandle )
>
> --
> HTH
> Steve Quinn
>
>
hello Steve,

this does not truncate the file, but in our case it seems it works.

Thanks
Andreas

Andreas Moroder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when exporting data with copy to the file gets a hex 1a byte appended.
>
> Is it possible to create a sdf file without his byte added ?
>
Why is it a problem? The 0x1a is chr(26) otherwise Cntrl-Z, the old CP/M
and MSDOS end-of-file indicator. It is invisible in normal contexts. Why
do you want to 'get rid' of it? If you concatenate two sdf files, the ^Z
at the end of the first one disappears and is replaced by the first byte
of the second file.

You may very well have a problem. I'm just curious what it is.
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Andreas

> this does not truncate the file, but in our case it seems it works.
Well it's to overwrite the CHR(26) (Ctrl+Z/EOF) with CHR(32) (SPACE)

If you want to truncate it then you'll need to copy the file all bar the las
t character.
If you have Funck(y), it has a Truncate() function.

--
HTH
Steve Quinn

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amoroder@sb-brixen[nospam].it "Andreas Moroder" writes:

> Stephen Quinn schrieb:
> 
>  close the file. 
> hello Steve,
>
> this does not truncate the file, but in our case it seems it works.

In order to truncate the file you must write zero bytes to it --
just change
 

to:

FWrite( nHandle, "" )

and that ^Z will disappear...

Pete
--
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we have borrowed it from our descendants."

Joe Wright schrieb:
> Andreas Moroder wrote:
> 
> Why is it a problem? The 0x1a is chr(26) otherwise Cntrl-Z, the old CP/M
> and MSDOS end-of-file indicator. It is invisible in normal contexts. Why
> do you want to 'get rid' of it? If you concatenate two sdf files, the ^Z
> at the end of the first one disappears and is replaced by the first byte
> of the second file.
>
> You may very well have a problem. I'm just curious what it is.
Because the web application i load the data into does not like this char.

Bye
Andreas

* Stephen Quinn <steveqNOSPAM@integritynet.com.au>:

> If you want to truncate it then you'll need to copy the file all bar the
> last character. If you have Funck(y), it has a Truncate() function.

Or you can FSEEK() to the location you want to truncate from and then do a:

,----
| fwrite( hFile, "", 0 )
`----

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