End ofFile Character

[omni]

Roger,

We are sending a file to a web page that cannot have the end of file character (hex 1A).

We are using fwrite() and fclose(). Is there a way (method) to save this file without that character in Alaska, or any method to strip it off?

Fred Henck
Omni

[Cliff Wiernik]

I will have to check but I thought that memowrit() did this but the fxxxxx functions did not. Had came across this with the xml functions in express++.

Not completely certain without some testing.

Cliff.

[omni]

Oh, I thought it was the other way around. Let me try the memowrite. I think I remember that also.

Thanks, Cliff

Fred

[skiman]

Hi,

'memowrit' will add that character. Normally you wont have it when you use fwrite.

This is my function which i use for years.

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function abomemowrite(cTargetFile,cBuffer)
******************************************
Local nTarget := FCreate( cTargetFile, FC_NORMAL )
if nTarget == -1
    return .F.
  else
    FWrite( nTarget, cBuffer)
    FClose(ntarget)
endif 
return .T.

[rdonnay]

FWrite() does not add an EOF character.

I suspect that the EOF character is in the buffer text that you are writing.

[omni]

Verified and memowrit, which is used for our log routine and other situations, just updates info in a file, and never has an eof character, at least not the way we do it.

We do a memoread, then write the memoread plus what is to be added. On our error logs, it never ends I think we got this straight from Rogers error routine years ago.

Fred

[omni]

Sorry, I was wrong. The fwrite is the one that does not have the eof character.

[skiman]

Hi,

That was what I thought.
It's the reason I made my abomemowrit() function once.