creating sel on the fly with :

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:56 PM
Subject: creating sel on the fly with :


> I'm using fp 5.0.13 on OSR 5.0.6.
> 
> I'm creating some sel files on the fly and one of the fields that I need 
> to use has a ":" in the field, How can I change that ":" to a "^A" ?
> 
> 
> Example :
> 
> QUOTE=`cat $FILE2 | grep ADDRFQ | cut -f2 -d~`
> 
> (this sets QUOTE as  056455:246544)
> 
> echo " " > /usr2/appl/filepro/addrfq/sel.received
> echo :2::$QUOTE >> /usr2/appl/filepro/addrfq/sel.received
> 
> (this creates the sel file , but doesn't puts the ":")
> 
> Group   Field  Heading                 Rel    Value
> 
>        .  2  . DocumentId                 .   R-056455
> 
> how can I make it put the remaining :246544, the same as ^A246544 if 
> looked at it using vi ?
> 
> Thanks
> 

FYI

I changed the : for a wildcard = now I get what I needed

QUOTE=`cat $FILE | grep ADDRFQ | cut -f2 -d~ | tr ":" "="`

and the selection set is created like this:

GROUP  fIELD  Heading              Rel    Value
      .  2  . DocumentId              .   056455=246544