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  1. moskhan

    file reading question

    sorry mike for the previous post, FILE-INFO works with relative paths also, I had some other mistake in my code.
  2. moskhan

    file reading question

    Mike thank you for the suggestion, however FILE-INFO will not work with relative paths if the PROPATH variable is not set, I cannot set that variable on the machines the script is running, how can I then provide paths of type "../data/irepdata.fil" ? moskhan
  3. moskhan

    file reading question

    Hi One of our progress scripts was reading in a group of files (../irepdata.20070701.txt, ../irepdata.20070801.txt, etc..) using the INPUT STREAM command INPUT STREAM s-in THROUGH VALUE ("cat ../irepdata.*.txt") NO-ECHO. however problems happened when I introduced the following set of files...
  4. moskhan

    appending to an already existing file

    Hi, can anyone tell me how I can open a file in append mode in progress? I wish to append to the existing logfile, rather than creating a brand new logfile. If there is a reason why people prefer seperate logfiles, please tell me. thanks in advance moskhan
  5. moskhan

    fixed format file input

    Thanks Mad Michael, Your suggestions showed me another way of tackling that problem. I later found examples of fixed format code which showed me my error. Apparently, progress expects to see 1 space between variables (regardless of whether there are spaces within your string inputs). My input...
  6. moskhan

    fixed format file input

    hi I am a newbie at progress and I am stuck at a simple problem. How can I read text from a fixed format file. The example I am provided with uses SET STREAM to read space delimited numbers. But since text has spaces in it. This code does not work. Can anyone suggest something? moskhan PS: is...

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