Re: 4GL Information

In article <361te2$103@ankh.iia.org> fschwaj@iia.org (Jeffrey fSchwartz) writes: > I am currently evaluating Informix 4GL for use on a particular >project. We want to produce feeds from our informix database to several >external systems. In order to do this, we need to be able to produce >'flat files' in specific formats. How can I create text files with 4GL? Output a report to a file. >I was able to do it using the reporting feature and specifying 'output to >'stuff.dat' or something like that. My problem is that the data in the >file needs to have a different format from line to line. For example, >there is a header record, followed by a number of transactions. Each >transaction could be as few as one or as many as five lines in the file. >These lines have different formats. Can 4GL do this? How? Sure, no problem in 4GL -- There is a 'page header' statement as well as 'before group' and 'after group' statements. For information on Informix and INFORMIX-4GL try this URL: http://sun.garpac.com/informix.html Contributions to the Informix homepage are welcome. .-. .-. / \\ .-. .-. / \\ / \\ / \\ .-. _ .-. / \\ / \\ -/--Clay Irving-(N2VKG)\\-----/---\\---/-\\---/---\\-----/-----\\-------/-------\\-- clay@panix.com \\ / `-' `-' \\ / \\ / New York, New York `-' `-' \\ / `-' `-'