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Re: [OT QTP] Analysis of spurious records in QTP output
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:48:57 -0500
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Well, you can always let it put create the dictionary and just use the file
that ends in the letter 'Q' as is?

And isn't keep the default for portables?




On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:55 PM, James B. Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I am finding these sorts of records in the output of one of my QTP
> scripts.  This is a variant of a previously encountered issue
> respecting QTP SUBFILE creation.
>
>
> D^@^Q^@^@^@^H
> ^^:^^:^^^@^KQPD-N-DTECR^@^KQPD-N-TMECR^@^KQPD-N-PRTOT^@^
> KQPD-N-PRUOM^@^KQPD-N-AMQTY^@^EQUOTE^@^GQDELIMQ^@^HQPCSVHN1^
> @^HQPCSVHNQ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
>
> These NUL records have cropped up before and the way that I have
> handled them is to use awk as post-processor on the target host.  A
> simple awk one-liner strips out the spurious records.
>
> INFILE=QPCSVMIQ; OUTFILE=$INFILE.nonul ; awk '(length > 0)' < $INFILE
> > $OUTFILE
>
> However, with this particular file I am left with a number of records
> that consist solely of the letter D:
>
> grep -n '^D$' QPCSVMIQ.nonul
> 29:D
> 58:D
> 87:D
> 116:D
> 145:D
> 174:D
>
>
> Now the original file produced by QTP (v8.39C) is specified thus:
>
> . . .
> SUBFILE QPCSVMI1 NODICTIONARY KEEP PORTABLE NOAPPEND SIZE 500000   &
>      INCLUDE                                                       &
>              QUOTE,                                                &
>              HS-NOTE-TYPE OF MI,                                   &
>              QDELIMQ,                                              &
>              HS-NOTE-CHAR-KEY OF MI,                               &
>              QDELIMQ,                                              &
>              TEXT OF MI,                                           &
>              QDELIMQ,                                              &
>              COUNTRY-OF-TS OF MI,                                  &
>              QDELIMQ,                                              &
>              COUNTRY-OF-ORG OF MI,                                 &
>              QDELIMQ,                                              &
> . . .
>
> And yet something akin to dictionary type data is clearly being
> inserted, but only for this one file (so far).
>
> Has anyone any clue as to what is going on with QTP?
>
>
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