Why oh why Char 0?

Sunset

Why does NAV5 suddenly put character 0 after each write to a file?

I have made myself a report to write data into a file with extreme length in every line. So I do as so often before.

fifile.create('path+name');
fifile.textmode(false);
fifile.writemode(true);

fifile.write(field1);
fifile.write(field2);
etc
etc

Has worked like a charm for years. So why oh why does navision now put Char(0) after each field?

Have tried various formatting of the fields I'm sending, writemode(false), Outstream.write. But every time a write is made, NAV insist on putting Char(0) into my line ](*,)

kriki

Try with:

fifile.textmode(TRUE);

If you REALLY need fifile.textmode(false);, you can also do this after each fifile.WRITE(...);

f.SEEK(f.POS - 1);

Sunset

I REALLY need it to be in textmode(false)

f.SEEK(f.POS - 1) does the trick 8)

But it leaves me with having various codelines depending on version :evil: (I wonder how it will work after SP X :-$ )


"If it's not broken, don't fix it" apparently don't much any more :bug:

einsTeIn.NET

I don't think it's a bug. I think it's just the way it goes.

With an outstream variable you will get the terminating null if you use

OutS.WRITE

If you use

OutS.WRITETEXT

you won't get it. So you can use OutStream to write into your file.

kine

Or you can use universal solution: write the string char by char:

WriteString(var F:File; Text:Text 1000);
begin
  for i:=1 to StrLen(Text) do
    F.WRITE(Text[i]);
end;

It will write it correctly...