Creating fixed field length records

Rob Cozens rcozens at pon.net
Sun Oct 28 11:58:58 EDT 2007


All,

>         put empty into item <record length> of recordBuffer

Thanks to those who noted this logic comes up one character short.

However the better generic fix (IMO) is:

         put empty into item (<record length>+1) of recordBuffer

Rob Cozens CCW
Serendipity Software Company

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
  Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

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