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I want my Powerbuilder datawindow Save As text look like this Bold text are the additional text want to add and rest is the current save as text result.
Text files cannot contain formatting. There's no way to get bold text in a plain text file. I suggest adding the text to your datawindow header band (bolded, with an expression to make sure it only displays on the first page), then saving the results as HTML.
Well, you didn't mention which version of PB you are using, so I'll assume a recent one in which case you have some better options such as SaveAsAscii and/or SaveAsFormattedText which offer more flexibility in displaying column headers, computed fields, etc.
If you want to add the top section, I would add one or more additional dummy columns (or computed fields) to your dataobject for the additional data. Then either populate the dummy columns manually after retrieve, or via expression in computed field. You could put all of it in one computed field that wraps, or use four different ones (e.g. process_date_label, process_datetime, group_status, status).
The two newer versions of SaveAs will work better for you as they display column header values instead of the column header name. SaveAsAscii came out pretty early somewhere around version 7 of PowerBuilder. SaveAsFormattedText is relatively new and came out somewhere around PB version 11 and it is a lot like SaveAsAscii but it lets you choose file encoding.
If you need more explicit detail let me know but I am sure you can get something to work using SaveAsAscii and extra columns.
Pseudo code
Do the SaveAs to temp file
Open the temp file for read in line mode
Open output file for write (replace) in line mode
Write your additional text lines to the output file (note: you can include CRLF to
write multiple lines at once)
Loop:
Read line from temp file
If EOF exit loop. Note: 0 is not EOF, -100 is EOF
Write line to output file
Close temp file, output file
Delete temp file
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The first few lines of my CSV file look like this (when viewed from Notepad++):
Trace,Original Serial Number,New Serial number
0000073800000000097612345678901234567890,0054,0001
When I open this file in excel, I get this:
For some reason, excel is truncating the serial numbers and the trace number. I have tried changing the format to Text but that still doesn't work, as excel only sees the value up to the 6:
7.38000000000976E+34
If I change it to Number:
73800000000097600000000000000000000.00
What can I do? I only have 60 lines, so if I have to start over and some how recopy the text into excel I will, but I'm afraid saving it will change the format once again.
You shouldn't need to start over or alter the existing CSV. The fastest way might be to use Excel's text import wizard. In the data tab under Get External Data click From Text and select your CSV file.
The wizard that appears will let you tell Excel the data type of each "column" and you can tell it to use text for your barcode.
Excel is trying to "help" you by formatting the input values. To avoid this, do not double-click the file to open it. Instead, open the Data tab and in the Get External Data section, click on From Text
Then tell the Import Wizard that the fields are Text:
One solution that may work for you depending on the environment you consume the csv, you can add a nonnumeric character to the beginning and end (e.g. a "_") of the values. This will force Excel to recognize it as text. You can then remove the "_"s in your downstream environment (SQL, Databricks, etc.) or even keep them if they don't interfere with your reporting.
I have a fixed width text file that I needed to edit about 200 rows of. Importing into excel is easy but when I have completed my edits and try to save the file as a space-delimited or text file all the spacing goes out of whack, i.e the first field in excel is padded out to 6 characters but when I save the file as space-delimited or text it then turns that field into 8 characters.
Please note that I'm using a LEFT(text&REPT(" ", 30)30) formula to get the required padding which works very nicely. However I can't seem to save the file with the correct number of spaces. I have also just tried copying and pasting into a notepad file but this seems to just create more unwanted spaces etc.
How do I create a fixed width file when I have all the data I need and the field length requirements?? Has anyone had this trouble before? Thanks in advance.
I agree with Gary's Student. Just go to: Save As -> Formatted Text (Space Delimited) (.prn)*.This will bring almost same functionality as one you have in Excel.
For more information you may refer to:
https://superuser.com/questions/100433/export-an-excel-spreadsheet-to-fixed-width-text-file
I found that the best way to do this was to use Access and save as a text file and then you can set your own field width and export. excellent!
I'll suggest an export to csv (or similar) and then convert it with UltraEdit's super simple "Convert CSV to fixed with" function.
It scans the file and suggests a column width based on you content.
You can easily define your own preferred column width in a 30,25,25,40 pattern.
There's a 30 day trial, if you like it it's well worth the $99 license...
Alright, this maybe the simplest (or the stupidest) question, but I just got to know...
Suppose I have a text file containing account no. and balance. I am writing a program to search the file using entered account no. and update the balance field in the same text file with a new balance.
I am finding it surprisingly difficult to do so using file streams. The problem is that I am trying to overwrite the balance string in the said text file with a new balance string.
So, if the balance is 1000 (4 digits), I can overwrite it with another 4 digit string. But, if the new balance string is more than 4 digits, it is overwriting the data after the balance field (it is a simple text file mind you...).
For example, if the text file contains
Acc. No. balance
123456 100
123567 2500
The fields are separated by TAB '\t' character, and next record is separated by a newline '\n'. If I enter new deposit of 200000 for account 123456, the fwrite() function overwrites the data in the text file as...
Acc. No Balance
123456 2001003567 2500
You can notice that the '\n' after the balance field, and 2 digits from the next accounts' acc. no. is overwritten.
Of course, no-one wants that to happen :)
What I need is a way to insert text in that file, not just overwrite it. There are many results of doing this using Java, python or even SED, but nothing using FILE streams.
Please share your thoughts... thanks.
You'll have to move all data after the insertion point a few bytes up first. That's what Java, sed or python do as well, if they aren't writing a temporary file to begin with.
If you really want to manage your data in a plain text file:
While you are reading the file in, write a modified version of your data into a temporary file, then delete the original file and rename the temp file to the original filename. But be carefull that no other process accesses the same file concurrently.
Database systems were invented for such purposes. So I recommend to manage your data in a database table and dynamically create a text report when needed.
I'm working on a .NET application which exports CSV files to open in Excel and I'm having a problem with preserving leading zeros when the file is opened in Excel. I've used the method mentioned at http://creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm#CSVAndExcel
This works great until the user decides to save the CSV file within Excel. If the file is opened again in Excel then the leading zeros are lost.
Is there anything I can do when generating the CSV file to prevent this from happening.
This is not a CSV issue.
This is Excel loving to play with CSV files.
Change the extension to something else.
As #GSerg mentions, this is not a CSV issue.
If your users must edit/save in Excel they need to select the entire worksheet, right-click and choose "Format Cells" and from the Category list select "Text" after opening the csv file. This will preserve the leading zeros since the numbers will be treated as simple text.
Alternatively, you could use Open XML SDK 2.0, or some other Excel library, to create an xlsx file from your csv data and programmaticaly set the Cell type to Text in order to take the end users out of the equation...
I found a nice way around this, if you add a space anywhere along the phone number, the cell is then not treated as number and is treated as a text cell in both Excel and Apple's iWork Numbers.
It's the only solution I've found so far that plays nice with Numbers.
Yes I realise the number then has a space, but this is easy to process out of large chunks of data, you just have to select a column and remove all spaces.
Also, if this is web related, most web type things are ok with users entering a space in the number field. E.g you can tap-to-call on mobiles.
The challenge is to get the space in there in the first place.
In use:
01202123456 = 1202123456
but
01202 123456 = 01202 123456
Ok, new discovery.
Using Quick Preview on Mac to view a CSV file the telephone column will display perfectly, but opening the file fully with Numbers or Excel will ruin that column.
On some level Mac OS X is capable of handling that column correctly with no user meddling.
I am now working on the best/easiest way to make a website output a universally accepted CSV with telephone numbers preserved.
But maybe with that info someone else has an idea on how to make Numbers handle the file in the same way that Quick Preview does?
I have sql script "example.sql": SPOOL &1 Select '<.TR>'||'<.TD align="left">'||column_name||'<./TD>'||'<.TR>' from table1; spool off..which dumps it contents to cshell script "getdata.csh" this is how i get data from sql script to csh script sqlplus $ORA_UID/$ORA_PSWD #${SQL}example.sql ${DATA}${ext} once i extract data from it i create a excel file by combining 3 files header. html <html>
<.head>
<.title)
Title
<./title>
<./head>
<.body>
<.table >
<.tr>
<.th>Column Name<./th>
<.tr>ext file that has query results and trailer.html <./tr>
<./table>
<./body>
<./html> and i save this file as .xls and send it through email as attachment.. Now my problem is Column_name has data that starts with 0 but when i open excel file leading 0 are gone but i wanna keep that 0.. so what can i add to make sure that email attached excel file will have leading 0 when that is opened on the other side.. plz any help would be good
Using oracle:
Say your attribute is called 'number'
select '0' || to_char(number) as number
from table mytable
Use the excel object model, or a macro to go into the excel file grab the column and change the formatting.
In your case:
Range("A1").Numberformat = "#"
If you're generating the excel file on the fly, you could prepend those numbers with an apostrophe, ie '
This causes Excel to treat the number like a string. The only downside is it might cause some side effects if the sheet has any equations that use those numbers.
I have dealt with this issue in the past, and the problem is strictly a "feature" of Excel formatting. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to completely test an answer, but here are two things you can try.
Add a step inside your cshell script to surround your $1 value with ="",
awk '{$1= "=\"" $1 "\""; print $0}' inFile > outFile
The downside is that you're now telling Excel to treat these values as strings. If you're doing any fancy calculations on these values you may have different problems.
#2 (why does SO formatting always renumber numbered blocks as 1 !;-!) . As this is really an Excel formatting problem AND in my recollection, you can't retrieve the leading zero once the file has been opened and processed, I seem to remember I had a trick of pre-formatting a black worksheet, saving it as a template, and then loading the file into the template. I recall that was tricky too, so don't expect it to work. You might have to consult Excel users on the best tactics if #1 above doesn't work.
You might also want to tell people what version of Excel you are using, if you go to them for help.
I hope this helps.
P.S. as you appear to be a new user, if you get an answer that helps you please remember to mark it as accepted, and/or give it a + (or -) as a useful answer