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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 March 2012]

I need some pretty quit help. I'm using Net express 4.0.38 and I'm creating a tab delimited file. The data looks ok in animator, but when I review the file in textpad or a hex viewer, there has been a x'00' character inserted before each tab x'09' character. I've tried with a string command and building the record character by character and have the same resilts. The file is defined as a line sequential file. sample of the string below.

SELECT FILE-IN ASSIGN TO
'C:\\FILE.SAV\\01027137\\ONTARIO\\TEST.DAT'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL
FILE STATUS IS BM-STATUS.

FD FILE-IN.
01 FI-RECORD pic x(80).

OPEN output FILE-IN.
string '500' tab 'mark' tab 'help' delimited by size
into fi-record.
write fi-record.

CLOSE FILE-IN.
GOBACK.


Do I need to turn some switch of or on or is this a bug?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 March 2012]

I need some pretty quit help. I'm using Net express 4.0.38 and I'm creating a tab delimited file. The data looks ok in animator, but when I review the file in textpad or a hex viewer, there has been a x'00' character inserted before each tab x'09' character. I've tried with a string command and building the record character by character and have the same resilts. The file is defined as a line sequential file. sample of the string below.

SELECT FILE-IN ASSIGN TO
'C:\\FILE.SAV\\01027137\\ONTARIO\\TEST.DAT'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL
FILE STATUS IS BM-STATUS.

FD FILE-IN.
01 FI-RECORD pic x(80).

OPEN output FILE-IN.
string '500' tab 'mark' tab 'help' delimited by size
into fi-record.
write fi-record.

CLOSE FILE-IN.
GOBACK.


Do I need to turn some switch of or on or is this a bug?
This is because by default the Net Express file handler inserts a NULL character X"00" before any non-printable character in a line sequential file.

This is so the character is not treated as a line terminator or other control character when the file is read back in.

You can turn off this behavior in one of 3 ways.

Start your program with run-time switch -N
Example: C:\\myprog (-n)

or create an extfh.cfg file with the following in it:

[XFH-DEFAULT]
INSERTNULL=OFF

and then set environment variable EXTFH to point to the location of this file:
Example: SET EXTFH=C:\\mydir\\extfh.cfg

or use X"91" function 47

Disables insertion of a null character x"00" before data characters whose value is less than x"20" in line sequential files.

Syntax:
call x"91" using result
                 function-code
                 parameter
Parameters:
Using call prototype (see Key) Picture (32-bit systems)
result cblt-x1-compx pic x comp-x.
function-code cblt-x1-compx pic x comp-x.
parameter FD name of file

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 March 2012]

I need some pretty quit help. I'm using Net express 4.0.38 and I'm creating a tab delimited file. The data looks ok in animator, but when I review the file in textpad or a hex viewer, there has been a x'00' character inserted before each tab x'09' character. I've tried with a string command and building the record character by character and have the same resilts. The file is defined as a line sequential file. sample of the string below.

SELECT FILE-IN ASSIGN TO
'C:\\FILE.SAV\\01027137\\ONTARIO\\TEST.DAT'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL
FILE STATUS IS BM-STATUS.

FD FILE-IN.
01 FI-RECORD pic x(80).

OPEN output FILE-IN.
string '500' tab 'mark' tab 'help' delimited by size
into fi-record.
write fi-record.

CLOSE FILE-IN.
GOBACK.


Do I need to turn some switch of or on or is this a bug?
Thank you so much. I knew there had to be somekind of settings just did not know what. It works like a champ. Thanks again.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 March 2012]

I need some pretty quit help. I'm using Net express 4.0.38 and I'm creating a tab delimited file. The data looks ok in animator, but when I review the file in textpad or a hex viewer, there has been a x'00' character inserted before each tab x'09' character. I've tried with a string command and building the record character by character and have the same resilts. The file is defined as a line sequential file. sample of the string below.

SELECT FILE-IN ASSIGN TO
'C:\\FILE.SAV\\01027137\\ONTARIO\\TEST.DAT'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL
FILE STATUS IS BM-STATUS.

FD FILE-IN.
01 FI-RECORD pic x(80).

OPEN output FILE-IN.
string '500' tab 'mark' tab 'help' delimited by size
into fi-record.
write fi-record.

CLOSE FILE-IN.
GOBACK.


Do I need to turn some switch of or on or is this a bug?
Thank you so much. I knew there had to be somekind of settings just did not know what. It works like a champ. Thanks again.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 March 2012]

I need some pretty quit help. I'm using Net express 4.0.38 and I'm creating a tab delimited file. The data looks ok in animator, but when I review the file in textpad or a hex viewer, there has been a x'00' character inserted before each tab x'09' character. I've tried with a string command and building the record character by character and have the same resilts. The file is defined as a line sequential file. sample of the string below.

SELECT FILE-IN ASSIGN TO
'C:\\FILE.SAV\\01027137\\ONTARIO\\TEST.DAT'
ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL
FILE STATUS IS BM-STATUS.

FD FILE-IN.
01 FI-RECORD pic x(80).

OPEN output FILE-IN.
string '500' tab 'mark' tab 'help' delimited by size
into fi-record.
write fi-record.

CLOSE FILE-IN.
GOBACK.


Do I need to turn some switch of or on or is this a bug?
Thank you so much. I knew there had to be somekind of settings just did not know what. It works like a champ. Thanks again.
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