Exporting all fields in a record

 

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To export all of the fields of each record, a FULL record function is available.  Selecting it will produce a file called FULL.RPT.  This file lists all of the fields defined in the database.  When exporting, select this .RPT file.

Is the .RPT file the same format as those used for accident lists? Yes, but most of the accident list reports have the fields looked-up prior to printing.  This way the English is shown instead of the internal numeric representations.  When exporting data to another program, the user will usually want to send just raw data.  Looking at the FULL.RPT file, the user will note that most of the fields specify RAW as the last parameter.  This is what causes the program to send just numbers.

 

       ASCII fixed field - Selecting fixed-field causes the program to look at the .RPT width field and format each field to the specified width.
       ASCII delimited - When delimited is specified, leading and trailing spaces are removed and a comma is inserted between fields.  All text fields are surrounded with quote characters to aid in re-importing.