Re: How to add and remove spaces in a record

2003-07-05 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:04:18PM -0700, Madhu Reddy wrote: > > then of recors length is more than 25, delete the > chars after 25...basically truncate record length to > 25 > > and if record length is less than 25 add some spaces > to make record length 25. Either sprintf() or pack() woul

How to add and remove spaces in a record

2003-07-05 Thread Madhu Reddy
Hi, I have file to load into database... the file contains fixed length records.. basically i need to check for record lengths before loading into database.. suppose my fixed record length is 25 i have to read each record then of recors length is more than 25, delete the chars after 25...basi