Re: READFILE command?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16215
interpreted = N
texte = >>>>Could someone help me find the command(s) needed to read in the lines of >a >>>>file one line at a time. >>> >>>There is no mechanism for reading files one line at a time; I guess you >could treat the file as a database with just one field, and pull it in that >way. >> >>...making sure to end each line with a real carriage return instead of >using a soft-wrapped block of text ... :) > >I think this is a legitimate request, as there are a lot of companies that >still (believe it or not) use UNIX accounting systems that only output as >fixed-format files, and we still need the ability to use these files to >update or replace our product databases on a regular, scheduled basis... It has been awhile since I have done this, way back in webcat1.6 days. But our AIX (unix box) system has a command to do a doswrite to disk. We wrote a simple program that generated about 80% of the catalog.txt file right out data on the unix box with tabs and hard returns to get out products data quickly onto webcat.=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com ===============================================
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>>>>Could someone help me find the command(s) needed to read in the lines of >a >>>>file one line at a time. >>> >>>There is no mechanism for reading files one line at a time; I guess you >could treat the file as a database with just one field, and pull it in that >way. >> >>...making sure to end each line with a real carriage return instead of >using a soft-wrapped block of text ... :) > >I think this is a legitimate request, as there are a lot of companies that >still (believe it or not) use UNIX accounting systems that only output as >fixed-format files, and we still need the ability to use these files to >update or replace our product databases on a regular, scheduled basis... It has been awhile since I have done this, way back in webcat1.6 days. But our AIX (unix box) system has a command to do a doswrite to disk. We wrote a simple program that generated about 80% of the catalog.txt file right out data on the unix box with tabs and hard returns to get out products data quickly onto webcat.=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com ===============================================
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