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    #1

    Export file with all Capitals in header

    Is there a way, using A5V8, to make an export file (ASCII type)have all Capital letters in the header (field names)instead of upper and lower case?

    It doesn't matter if I have all capital letters in the table design, the export alters the the case.

    My end customer insists that the lower case letters in the header cause the file to fail to import into his system. He says it is a Windows based system. I've never run into a case where the upper/lower case mattered on a Windows system, only Linux/Html.

    Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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    Re: Export file with all Capitals in header

    John,
    I just tried this in v8 and all my fieldnames export totally capitalized....apparently just as your client wants/needs.

    So whatever your results, if it is not working, then omit the fieldnames on export and write back the headers via xbasic. Or leave the headers and replace them with xbasic.

    File manipulation such as this is actually fairly easy once the functions are found.

    There is more than one way to do this BTW. In your case I would export just as you have, then use the Replace Line function...using a text line that is the header that is wanted(comma delimited I believe).---I cannot remember the exact name of the function---could even start with an asterisk...
    Mike
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    It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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      #3
      Re: Export file with all Capitals in header

      I guess I took my ass-backwards pills today.

      I meant to say that I want the Upper and lower case but I get all Capitals.

      I've been trying to end this project for too long now and my brain isn't working like it should be.

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        Re: Export file with all Capitals in header

        :D

        Well, here is something that could be used either way really--but assumes here that the header will always be static....could be made dynamic if wanted. Same with the Path. The replicate adds the spaces so will have to be changed to what you require as well.

        Code:
        dim Hdr_Upper as c
Hdr_Upper="COMPANYNAME"+replicate(chr(32),46)+"ADDRESSADDR1"+replicate(chr(32),29)+"PHONE"+replicate(chr(32),46)+"Ssn"

dim cc as C
cc = file.to_string("C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\ascii_test.txt")
cc=*line_replace(cc,Hdr_Upper,1)
file.from_string("C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\ascii_test.txt", cc)
        Mike
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        It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
        It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
        Henry David Thoreau
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          Re: Export file with all Capitals in header

          Just curious Mike. Have you found some benefit to

          replicate(chr(32),46)

          over

          space(46)

          ?
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: Export file with all Capitals in header

            :D Absolutely!! As I have used both it comes down to the point that Replicate() came to mind when Space() did not!! (I was just happy I was able to remember one of them :) ) Thanks Stan for the reminder!
            Mike
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            It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
            Henry David Thoreau
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