At 10:31 PM 3/16/2008, Juan Pablo Sandoval wrote:
>Hi: I have a rather large dataset with I need to export to ASCII
>format, but at some points I need to force blanks so I can conform
>to the client's
>format. In order to do that at some points I need to "force" blanks, I have
>variables in my dataset for that purpose, and I use this syntax:
>
>write outfile = "C:\TEMP\TEST.DAT" /
> var1 (f7)
> blank (a40)
> var2 (f2)
> blank1 (a501)
> var3 (f4).
>...
>exe.
>
>And I get an error that says
>"The field width is greater than the maximum permitted for the specified"
I'm not sure. To start with, have you declared blank1 as a
501-character string? Anyway, the following approach appears to work for me:
WRITE OUTFILE=WriteTo / var1(F7) var2(40X,F2) var3(501X,F4).
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DATA LIST FREE /var1 var2 var3.
BEGIN DATA
1234567 22 4444.
END DATA.
WRITE OUTFILE=WriteTo
/'Start of output, not a real record'.
WRITE OUTFILE=WriteTo / var1(F7) var2(40X,F2) var3(501X,F4).
EXECUTE.
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