Recent content by Gail Selsmeyer

Try using the EXPORT command to output to a file. I do this all the time to dump data to a comma delimited file to examine the contents using Excel. Without knowing more about how you need to use the output data I can't really suggest anything more.

Murray, Thank you so much for your help. I truly appreciate the effort. It turns out that on one format attribute on one of the 21 EXPORT commands I had added I had inadvertently typed a single quote instead of a double quote. I found it only by commenting out all of the export...

My report frame is 159 characters wide. I'm not using a frame for my export and that's to a different stream. I don't have any titles except for the report title and screen title. No title attributes at all. Could have my record counter after the export statement be doing something here...

Okay...So I'm exceptionally dense today. The frames for the report were all tested and working fine. The prompts with frames, for user input, were also tested and working fine. I then added exports for a comma-delimited flat file (which doesn't have any frames). What kinds of things should I...

I'm working in Progress V8.3B CHAR. Today I've started getting the message "Title message is too long for the window (character(s) lost). (4149). The message isn't giving me any idea of what's causing this problem. The program is a complex report, but nothing I haven't done in the past...

James, I've emailed the program code to you. Sure hope you can help even a little. :wavey: Thanks Gail

Okay, I'm still new to Progress but I've got 20+ years in programming. I've got a program that selects a record from a set of records, then cycles through another set of records in a table subordinate to the first table. When I'm finished with that cycle I want to come back and check through...