Property | Description |
|---|---|
DatatypeSet | This allows you to switch between standard ASCII data types and COBOL display data types. |
FieldSeparator | Allows you to choose a field separator character for your target file. The default is None. The other choices are comma (,), tab, space, carriage return-line feed (CR-LF), line feed (LF), carriage return (CR), line feed-carriage return (LF-CR), control-R, and pipe ( | ). If the record separator is not one of the choices in the list and is a printable character, highlight None and then type the correct character. For example, if the separator is an asterisk ( * ), type an asterisk from the keyboard. If the record separator is not a printable character, replace CR-LF with a backslash, an X, and the hexadecimal value for the separator. For example, if the separator is a check mark, then enter \XFB. For a list of the 256 standard and extended ASCII characters, search for "hex values" in the documentation. |
FillFields | Writes an ASCII data file where every field is variable length. If this property is set to false, all trailing spaces are removed from each field when the data is written. The default is true. The true setting pads all fields with spaces to the end of the field length to maintain the fixed length of the records. |
Ragged Right | Writes an ASCII data file where the last field in each record is variable length when set to true. The default is false. The false setting pads the last field with spaces to the end of the record length to maintain the fixed length of the records. Note: You must set FillFields to false for the RaggedRight property to work properly. The Ragged Right property has no effect if you set FillFields to true. If you set FillFields to false, then the RaggedRight property determines whether blank fields and fields with only spaces as their data still appears at the end of the record. |
RecordSeparator | A PayChex (DJF) Import Properties file is presumed to have a carriage return-line feed (CR-LF) between records. To use other characters for a record separator, click the RecordSeparator cell and click once. Then click the arrow to the right of the box and click the desired record separator in the list box. The list box choices are carriage return-line feed (default), line feed, carriage return, line feed-carriage return, form feed, empty line and no record separator. To use a separator other than one from the list, you can type it here. If the record separator is not one of the choices in the list and is a printable character, highlight the CR-LF and then type the correct character. For example, if the separator is a pipe ( | ), type a pipe from the keyboard. If the record separator is not a printable character, replace CR-LF with a backslash, an X, and the hexadecimal value for the separator. For example, if the separator is a check mark, then enter \XFB. For a list of the 256 standard and extended ASCII characters, search for "hex values" in the documentation. |
Tab Size | This sets the number or spaces represented by a tab character. The default is 0. |
CodePage | This translation table determines which encoding to use for reading and writing data. The default is ANSI, the standard in the US. • ANSI • OEM • 0037 US (EBCDIC) • 0273 Germany (EBCDIC) • 0277 Norway (EBCDIC) • 0278 Sweden (EBCDIC) • 0280 Italy (EBCDIC) • 0284 Spain (EBCDIC) • 0285 UK (EBCDIC) • 0297 France (EBCDIC) • 0437 MSDOS United States • 0500 Belgium (EBCDIC) • 0850 MSDOS Multilingual (Latin 1) • 0860 MSDOS Portuguese • 0861 MSDOS Icelandic • 0863 MSDOS Canadian French • 0865 MSDOS Nordic • 1051 Roman-8 |