Zeroes in text file

Hi guys my problem is,
I have a struct which has the foll component of type c(7).
z_rate(7) type c.
I need to download this to a text file in a way that it shows just two decimal places but doesn not condense the rest of the space.
eg
11.00 nextvalNEXTVAL.....and so forth
at the moment the txt file appears like this
11.0000nextvalNEXTVAL.....and so forth
I am passing value to z_rate like this
data:source(4) type p dec 4.
buffer(4) type p dec 2.
buffer = source.
z_rate = buffer.
append struct.
Please advise.
Points assured

It looks ok.. May be you are not clearing the existing contents of the Z_RATE.
data:source(4) type p dec 4.
buffer(4) type p dec 2.
clear z_rate.
buffer = source.
z_rate = buffer.
append struct.
Regards,
Naimesh Patel

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I want to modify the X Y and Z = values for each Test_#.
I’ve managed to import the important values into a numeric array and I have a different array with values that will replace the existing ones. I’m having troubles replacing the existing ones. There are no zeros before or after the existing numbers so they are all different lengths.
If anyone has any sample code that does anything similar please post it. I’m sure someone has done something like this in the past.
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I just thought I would throw this out there. Can you make the .txt file tokenized? This would make searching for specific parameters much easier.
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Add date to new text file name and generic text in body

Okay, I hope this is the right forum. To help manage and keep track of incoming assets/files and I created an Automator workflow with the following: "Get Selected Finder Items → Get Folder Contents → New Text File (w/Show this action when the workflow runs so I can give a unique name).
This creates a text file with the folder contents listed in the body.
I would like to know if I can do two things:
1. Automatically add a date/time stamp to the Save as field so it will automatically have a unique file name?
2. I also want to add text before the listed contents within the text file. (e.g.: Let's say the folder contents are Volumes/Mac HD/Generic_movie.mov. I want the final text to read:
"The following file has been moved to the local volume at: Volumes/Mac HD/Generic_movie.mov"
Is there a way to accomplish either one or both of these with Automator or AppleScripts?
Thanks.

I would like to know if I can do two things...
This might address your first concern:
*1) Get Selected Finder Items*
*2) Get Folder Contents*
*3) New Text File* -- select a destination folder and check *Show Action When Run*
*4) Rename Finder Items:*
Choose *Add Date or Time* from the popup
Date/Time: select Created, Modified, or Current - Format: *Month Day Year*
Where: *After name* - Separator: *Forward Slash*
Separator: Space - check *Use Leading Zeros* (optional)
*5) Rename Finder Items:*
Choose *Add Text* from the popup
Add: *" at"* -- put a leading space before "at" (without the quotes), and select *after name*.
*6) Rename Finder Items:*
Choose *Add Date or Time*
Date/Time: Current - Format: *Hour Minute Second*
Where: *After name* - Separator: Dash
Separator: Space - check *Use Leading Zeros* (strongly recommended)
+--- End of Workflow ---+
Save the workflow as an application and use it as a droplet. Drop a desired folder onto the saved applet and enter a name when the dialog appears. The new text file, which will be found in the destination folder, should be appended with a date and time stamp, e.g., *"My Folder List 7/8/2010 at 23-54-09"*
Tested using Mac OS 10.4.11 and Automator v. 1.0.5
Good luck; hope this helps.

Problem in creating text file from report file

Hello Everybody...
I have problem in creating text file.
I had set System Parameter as below
DESTYPE : File
MODE : Character
DESNAME : gayu.txt
And ruler setting
Units : Character Cells
Character Cell Size : Horiziontal = 7
Vertiacle =12
GridSpacing : 1
no of snap points per grid spacing : 1
but when i run report it will give error
"REP_1219 M_2 or R_2 has no size -- length or width zero"
so is there any solution of that
or another way to convert report into text file?....

Hi Folks,
Please don't go after that Error as its a very deceptive one. Please don't go for altering your design Or changing the size of items in your layout.
Similar errors I have come across in reports. I think its due to file transfer type. You might have transferred the file in Binary and your File Mode I am seeing it as CHAR.
This normally happens while making the Report Format as "Text". Either you change that format which I think is possible in your case as your basic requirement is making a report output of CHAR type.
Please check for this error in Metalink and proceed accordingly. I could fix similar errors when I changed Format type to PDF(from text).
Regards
Shibu

Importing a text file with variable values into web reporting

Hello,
I'm looking for a possibility to import values from a text file into a variable selection in Web reporting.
With BEx reporting in Excel this is possible, by clicking on the multiple selection button in the variable popup screen, and subsequently selecting the "Import from Text file" button.
However, this function seems not to be available for web-reporting...
It would be great if someone could help me out with this!
Thanks & regards,
Arvid

Hi,
we could resolve this issue, so i thought it may also be helpful for others:
In our example we used a file with numbers for materials. This file is stored somewhere in a directory, to which SAP BI must have authorization to read.
The file looks something like this:
4711
4712
4713
4714
The file is named "import.txt" and lays in directory "/usr/sap/EC6/files/bi/"
*& Include           ZXRSRU01
* global variables
Data: intern_range LIKE LINE OF i_t_var_range,
      l_s_range    TYPE rsr_s_rangesid,
      line(100)    TYPE c,
      p_file(128) TYPE c,
      length_rangelow type i,
      tmp_rangelow     like l_s_range-low.
* internal tables for selection-transfer from transaction
* Data: BEGIN OF it_file occurs 0,
*        it_p_file(128) TYPE c,
*      END of it_file.
IF i_step = 1.
** variables can be changed or set before pop-up appears
CASE i_vnam.
* take material from external file to selection-list
     WHEN 'ZSD_UPMA'.
** call of transaction, with which the path can be set
*CALL TRANSACTION 'ZBW_VARIABLE' using it_file
*MODE 'A'      " call should be visible, so that variable can be set
*UPDATE 'S'.   " first transaction, then processing
** Der Pfad, der in dem Selektionsbild eingegeben wird, wird an die Variable übergeben
** Der Set-Parameter ist in Report ZSD_SELECT_VARIABLE
* get parameter id 'VAR' field p_file.
p_file = '/usr/sap/EC6/files/bi/import.txt'.
* further handling of variable in BI
      OPEN DATASET p_file FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
      IF sy-subrc = 0.
        READ DATASET p_file INTO line.
        WHILE sy-subrc = 0.
          IF line(2) <> '//'.
            l_s_range-sign = 'I'.
            l_s_range-opt = 'EQ'.
            l_s_range-low = line.
* fill with leading Zeros
* in variable tmp_rangelow the value from l_s_range-low is taken
    tmp_rangelow    = l_s_range-low.
* read the length
    length_rangelow = strlen( tmp_rangelow ).
* in our case: material has 18 characters
    while length_rangelow lt 18.
      CONCATENATE '0' tmp_rangelow INTO tmp_rangelow.
      length_rangelow = length_rangelow + 1.
    endwhile.
* initialize l_s_range-low
    clear l_s_range-low.
* set with filled values
    l_s_range-low = tmp_rangelow.
* transfer to structure
            APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
          ENDIF.
          READ DATASET p_file INTO line.
        ENDWHILE.
      ENDIF.
      CLOSE DATASET p_file.
    ENDCASE.
ELSEIF i_step = 2.
** in step 2 all variable values from pop-up input can be processed or
** User Exit variables can be derived
* UserExit Ende.
ENDIF.
Hope i could help!
Best regards,
Tobias

Tfman - text file manager, much different then others

Tfman - text file manager.
Performs operations on files through textual representation of file system.
Textual representation is in the form of plain text, editable with any text
editor and may contain multiple operations of every kind. Tfman can be
used from command-line or from within Vim as multi-window file manager.
It can be combined with tools like Sed or Awk.
. written in C fo Unix-like operating systems
. no dependencies (except gcc/clang and GNU Make for building)
Features in short:
- scan filesystem to create its textual representation
- parse textual representation and perform retrieved operations
- use favorite text editing tool to edit textual representation
- scan, edit and parse in one step
- use Tfman from command-line or from within Vim as multi-window file manager
- integration with other decent text editors should be easy
- available: brace expansion, globbing, entries grouping, whole directory operations and more
Project's homepage:
https://chiselapp.com/user/machel/repository/tfman/home
Installation procedure (AUR or sources tarball) - see Project's homepage
Documentation, sources, report issue - see Project's homepage
Warning:
Tfman is in an early state, it didn't receive sufficient testing yet. Please
be carefull when manipulating sensitive data with it.
Note:
I do not know any file manager that manipulates file system in similar way.
Therefore usefulness of this kind of approach is not proven.
Help me prove it.
Screenshots:
Screenshot1
New version pushed to AUR:
- changing entry ownership and permissions now associated under one action tag
- few other action tags changed
- Quick Start Guide now available, see Project's homepage
- bug fixes
Last edited by machel (2014-07-15 11:48:48)

machel wrote:I know it looks complex, but I believe it is not as complex as it seems to be although
not as simple as I want it to be. Any ideas how to make it simpler are highly appreciated.
Well, for start: Is there really a reason to use different character for directory and its subdirectories? As far as I can tell, you could just use '%' for all directories and decide what is top-level directory and what is subdirectory based on the indentation. Also, it would be nice to reserve '#' for comments, as it is common in many languages.
machel wrote:2) Use action tags to specify operations. They apply to single entries, groups of entries or whole directories
Here the complexity begins. There is 13 operations, if I counted it correctly in the man page. To be fair, some of them are just adding '*' enforce overwrites. Fine, that leaves us with about 9 operations to learn. I could probably do that But it would be better if it was less... Would it be possible to simplify operations that don't affect file location by allowing user to simply change the value in the text representation? It would probably require some kind of header (or some clever trickery), because the order of columns is not fixed, but it might be worth the trouble. You could also extend this to changing file times and perhaps other properties (those from '-F proper'). The linking and moving operators look good, with little exception of '))' - that just looks odd to me But that is definitely my personal taste... I'd prefer something like single '>'.
machel wrote:3) Entry names and action operands - I believe using them is quite intuitive:
Name relative to directory/subdirectory above:
'name'
If you want absolute name:
'/name'
If you want name relative to current working directory (where Tfman was invoked):
'./name'
No problem with this, I like that.
machel wrote:
dolik.rce wrote:ability to execute commands on the files/directories
What do you mean? Shell commands?
Shell commands would be best, but generally just ability to execute command with given file/directory as input or parameter. Example usage would be something like this:
# Dir
file1 ^ sed -i -e 'some sed script here' becomes: sed -i -e 'some sed script here' < file1
file2 ^% touch % becomes: touch file2
The syntax is just an example, but in this case ^ would feed the file into the standard input of the command, and '^%' would replace '%' in commandline with the actual file name. For globing, command gets executed for each matching file.
machel wrote:
dolik.rce wrote:execute some actions conditionally
Interesting idea. I must think about it.
Tfman already have tags to stop parsing file, stop parsing line and goto next,
disable whole dir/group or single entry, exclude entry from under directory/group,
perform action on previous action's target, ignore errors.
But it works unconditionally.
I can imagine wanting to do something based on the properties of file or even based on output of external command. E.g. 'move file only if it's older then N days', or 'ask remote server if it has file X, move the file to directory upload/ when the command returns non-zero exit status'
machel wrote:--- Tfm ---
Remember about 'tfm' utility which is simple Tfman wrapper scanning given directory,
opening it in editor defined in EDITOR shell variable (Vim is default) and parsing
result after you save and quit.
It just compress 3 steps into 1.
This is definitely handy, and probably only reasonable way to use tfman interactively. However, I'm not a vim-person - as I already said I'm lazy to remember anything, so you can imagine that learning enough vim commands to use it effectively would be a nightmare for me The same goes for tfmvi, I'm just not the target audience for that. But my EDITOR variable is usually set to nano, so I could easily use it with that, probably just with slightly more typing.

How do i clear a text file.....

Hi All...
I wud like to know how to clear a text file....
Currently am replacing the text file and writing...Actually i need to open the file(after clearing the contents)and write.
I think replacing the file each time is not a good idea...
So please let me know how to clear the text file.
Thanks in advance.
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You can set the file size to zero using "Set File Size" from the advanced file io palette.
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