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What is ASCII Foxed Width or comma delimited format?
I have to submit a table in either an ASCII Foxed Width or Comma delimited
format. MS-Excel worksheets are not permitted. Is tab-delimited the same as comma-delimited? |
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What is ASCII Foxed Width or comma delimited format?
That of course should be Ascii Fixed Width.
For such a file, each data field occupies the same number of spaces, so that entries in each field are padded with spaces to make up the required number. A comma delimited file is similar to a tab delimited file except that each field is separated by a comma with the data being enclosed in quotation marks "this is the first field data","This is the second field data"¶ -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "WESTARM" wrote in message news I have to submit a table in either an ASCII Foxed Width or Comma delimited format. MS-Excel worksheets are not permitted. Is tab-delimited the same as comma-delimited? |
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What is ASCII Foxed Width or comma delimited format?
Yes - ASCII Fixed Wideth - sorry I was in a hurry!
How do I go about setting up these data fields? The instructions say that each record must be 142 bytes in length. What does this mean? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: That of course should be Ascii Fixed Width. For such a file, each data field occupies the same number of spaces, so that entries in each field are padded with spaces to make up the required number. A comma delimited file is similar to a tab delimited file except that each field is separated by a comma with the data being enclosed in quotation marks "this is the first field data","This is the second field data"¶ -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "WESTARM" wrote in message news I have to submit a table in either an ASCII Foxed Width or Comma delimited format. MS-Excel worksheets are not permitted. Is tab-delimited the same as comma-delimited? |
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What is ASCII Foxed Width or comma delimited format?
In a text file, one character (or space) equals one byte.
See http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes4.htm In your case, each record must contain 142 characters or spaces. Each individual field in a record must contain the same number of characters or spaces from one record to the next, and the total of characters or spaces in all of the fields in a record must total 142. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "WESTARM" wrote in message ... Yes - ASCII Fixed Wideth - sorry I was in a hurry! How do I go about setting up these data fields? The instructions say that each record must be 142 bytes in length. What does this mean? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: That of course should be Ascii Fixed Width. For such a file, each data field occupies the same number of spaces, so that entries in each field are padded with spaces to make up the required number. A comma delimited file is similar to a tab delimited file except that each field is separated by a comma with the data being enclosed in quotation marks "this is the first field data","This is the second field data"¶ -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "WESTARM" wrote in message news I have to submit a table in either an ASCII Foxed Width or Comma delimited format. MS-Excel worksheets are not permitted. Is tab-delimited the same as comma-delimited? |
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