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concatenate variable to set length
Name: fp56 Date: February 8, 2008 at 07:06:25 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: P4 2Gb ram Product: HP
Comment:
I receive files containing vaiable length records on a daily basis which need to be reformatted to a specific length. Is there a way to concatenate these files to a set length? I currently run two different utilities to accomplish this.
Name: klint Date: February 8, 2008 at 08:38:51 Pacific
Reply:
When you say concatenate, do you mean truncate? You may find with a suitable utility like Awk, Perl or Python, you can write a short script to do just that.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: February 9, 2008 at 05:16:17 Pacific
Reply:
To use the first 10 chars, for instance:
::== @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do ( set str=%%a set str=!str:~0,10! echo !str! )
===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: User123456789 Date: February 11, 2008 at 01:50:36 Pacific
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As Mechanix states, the SET command has got many useful features
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