RE: creating ifs fixed length text file with unusual requirement

"truncate" was my first thought but, from what I can see, it doesn't exist in PASE.

A combination of "wc -m" and "head" to cat all but the last character out to another file could be cobbled together.

Personally, I'd just put together an RPG version of truncate, frontend it with a command and use that.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power




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Subject: Re: creating ifs fixed length text file with unusual requirement

well.... for a quick fix you can PASE your way out with a shell "truncate -1" to remove last byte...but man, ain't ugly eh?, close your eyes while doing it
btw in the RFC for CSV the last one is specified as optional, so a receiving parser should be obliged to recon..


On Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 04:43:52 PM GMT+1, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Creating fixed length (801) ascii txt file with LF in 802 but requiring
last row to have no LF.
This is not a written requirement but their workaround after state
government agency I'll not name implemented a new web portal (old portal
upload worked for 10+ years, New portal breaks as its failing looking for
next record that does not exist.
I'm only assisting to fix issue.
File created CPYTOSTMF UTF-8 and rows added with CPYTOIMPF

I could build a RPGLE pgm to remove last row LF, but is there a script way
of doing this that can execute from clle? Not too familiar with script
except sftp processing. V7R5

Thx
Jim Franz...
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