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Replacing Carriage Return with a space WHERE APPLICABLE

Asked by: dabdowb

This is driving me completely nuts!!!  BUT, I am new to all of this, so that is part of the problem.  I am attempting to have the output from the following code put into a flat text file that is either pipe delimited, or comma delimited WITH a quote field qualifier.  The code itself works just fine, except when someone has placed carriage returns in the field called REM_TEXT.  Whenever there is no carriage return in that field, all the data for that particular record is spreadout across one row of data, which is what I need, since the text file is then being imported into a database for analysis.  

Unfortunately, the REM_TEXT field in the mother application is completely open for any format, so some users have hard carriage returns in this field so that it looks "pretty" on the screen when viewing it.  Why do they try to make it pretty?  Just kills me.

Anyway, I read in this forum where a TRANSLATE function could be used to identify the carriage returns and convert them to a horizontal tab, but when I tried that using the following syntax, it blew up all together saying not the right amount of arguments?

translate (REM_TEXT,chr(13),chr(9)) in place of just REM_TEXT

So now I am at your mercy and praying to the coding gods for help.  HELP!?!?!?!?!

Thanks

set echo off
set newpage 0
set space 0
set pagesize 0
set feedback off
set trimspool on
set heading off
set linesize 12000
 
 
SPOOL C:\Remarks.txt
 
select FCST_ID||'|'||trim(substr(fcst_id,1,18))||'|'||substr(fcst_id,19,8)||'|'||substr(fcst_id,27,10)||'|'||
ltrim(PROD_GRP_ID)||'|'||LVL_NBR||'|'||REM_VER_NBR||'|'||CRTD_DATE_TIME||'|'||MOD_DATE_TIME||'|'||
MOD_USR_INDX||'|'||REM_TEXT||'|'||REM_DESC
from LGTY_REMARK_ENTRY, SCP_FCST_ROOT, LGTY_REMARK
where LGTY_REMARK_ENTRY.REM_NBR = SCP_FCST_ROOT.REM_NBR and LGTY_REMARK_ENTRY.rem_nbr = LGTY_REMARK.rem_nbr;
 
 
SPOOL OFF
 
 
exit

                                  
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Answers

 

by: sdstuberPosted on 2009-01-15 at 13:33:17ID: 23388049

try using replace

replace(rem_text,chr(13), ' ')

or if you have carriage return+line feed

replace(rem_text,chr(13) || chr(10), ' ')

 

by: dabdowbPosted on 2009-01-15 at 14:23:25ID: 23388499

very interesting sdstuber.  I tried your first suggestion, but it did not work for what I appear to be battling.  So I tried your second option, even though not fully understanding it, and it worked.

Now I have all the data on one line, but for whatever reason the fields CRTD_DATE_TIME and MOD_DATE_TIME do not import into the database, even though I have them setup as date/time fields.  I also noticed that I lost the time stamp that is included in the field.  The actual data out of the mother application should come down in this format:

mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss (and the time is in military time)

But with the code above, it only dumps the date as such:

dd-mmm-yy (where mmm is the three char abbreviation for each month, JAN, FEB, etc.)

I would like to retain that time if possible...is that something that needs to be set in the code upfront, like a formatting guide?

I know this technically is a different question, and I can ask it if needed, but I couldn't get the data to dump right before, so just noticing it.

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,
Matt

 

by: dabdowbPosted on 2009-01-15 at 14:29:54ID: 23388568

Nevermind the part that I can't get the date in the database....doing too many things at once. It just required a change on the import spec and it loaded fine, BUT, it is still missing the time stamp, so this part of the last entry is still a question I am curious about.

The actual data out of the mother application should come down in this format:

mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss (and the time is in military time)

But with the code above, it only dumps the date as such:

dd-mmm-yy (where mmm is the three char abbreviation for each month, JAN, FEB, etc.)

I would like to retain that time if possible...is that something that needs to be set in the code upfront, like a formatting guide?

 

by: sdstuberPosted on 2009-01-15 at 15:33:43ID: 23389093

try this...


SELECT      fcst_id
         || '|'
         || TRIM(SUBSTR(fcst_id, 1, 18))
         || '|'
         || SUBSTR(fcst_id, 19, 8)
         || '|'
         || SUBSTR(fcst_id, 27, 10)
         || '|'
         || LTRIM(prod_grp_id)
         || '|'
         || lvl_nbr
         || '|'
         || rem_ver_nbr
         || '|'
         || to_char(crtd_date_time,'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
         || '|'
         || to_char(mod_date_time,'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
         || '|'
         || mod_usr_indx
         || '|'
         || REPLACE(rem_text, CHR(13) || CHR(10), ' ')
         || '|'
         || rem_desc
  FROM   lgty_remark_entry, scp_fcst_root, lgty_remark
 WHERE   lgty_remark_entry.rem_nbr = scp_fcst_root.rem_nbr
     AND lgty_remark_entry.rem_nbr = lgty_remark.rem_nbr

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-01-16 at 04:18:34ID: 23392112

Using To_char (date) and Replace functions would solve your problem.

 

by: sdstuberPosted on 2009-01-16 at 05:17:30ID: 23392443

that's what I posted yesterday

 

by: dabdowbPosted on 2009-01-16 at 09:47:51ID: 31535231

Thanks so much!  That worked perfectly.  Have a great day!

 

by: sdstuberPosted on 2009-01-16 at 09:54:20ID: 23395392

glad I could help

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