Line Break while creating Text File from Template

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

rp_balaji — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:31:18 GMT

Hi Mike Schmitt,

I too had same requirement, and joinarray works really well, thanks for your inputs.

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

Sunil Mohan — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:08:20 GMT

Thanks Mike, joinArray helps :) and i have fixed it now !

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:04:49 GMT

if pv!fileContent is an array, then calling concat() on it will not result in ";" characters to find and replace; when viewing the value of an array elsewhere the ";" character is only added on the rendering side to help human readers, but is not actually contained in the array. For instance, concat({"a", "b", "c"}) will output abc instead of a; b; c.

Try this instead: joinArray(pv!fileContent, char(13)&char(10))

Also, if it still doesn't render in VI as you might expect, can you try to open the resulting file in a modern/good text editor (i.e. notepad++, etc) and report what you find there?

Note: if this works, then you may not have needed the char(13) at all, the issue may have just been the concat. So you could go back and try it again without the char(13) if the above works.

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

Sunil Mohan — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:14:15 GMT

Hi Mike, Still no Luck 😞 just typed the code below

Note: pv!fileContent (Multi Text)

substitute(concat(pv!fileContent),";", char(13) & char(10) ) --AM finding and replacing the ; symbol with the new line

Then this is written to the text file template

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:06:09 GMT

Some text editors (particularly more primitive ones like vanilla windows Notepad and, possibly, VI) require char(10) and char(13) at the end of every line instead of just char(10). I'd suggest you try ending each line in "char(13) & char(10)", and see what happens.

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

Sunil Mohan — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:58:54 GMT

Basically the file is sent to Linux server, and there am viewing it using Vi editor.

RE: Line Break while creating Text File from Template

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:38:14 GMT

What text editor are you trying to view the generated file in?