Bruce,

How about in EDITOR:

/set left=9
/cq /  / to // in all
/set left = 1

Doug.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Conrad <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 5:33 PM
Subject: Editing a file, to line up columns


>     Here's a question for you guru's out there.
>     We use SpoolMate for managing distribution. It works great, but
>     reporting on who gets what report isn't easy (unless you dedicate
>     someone to update a screen/report of static data).
>     So, I want to extract some information from the SCRIPT ksam file.
>     So far, I've FCopied the file to an MPE file, then used QEdit to
>     delete all the info the user doesn't want/need. I'm working on
>     standardizing how info is entered into Composer, but in the
>     meantime, I'm stuck with the messy format that it was done in
>     previously. As such, the COPY statement does not start in the same
>     column in every row. I was wondering if there was a (easy) way to
>     manipulate this file to have the COPY column line up. I have many
>     third party tools available...but if it's too hard, I won't bother.
>
>     TIA. example of file:
>
>     20918     FSR0300B COPY 1 EACH PLAUSSEB
>     20921     FSR0300B COPY 2 EACH BURKEJ
>     20925     FSR0300F
>     20932     FSR0300F         COPY 1 EACH LOGUE
>     20936     FSR0300F         COPY 1 EACH CHIN
>     20942     FSR0400
>     20949     FSR0400          COPY 2 EACH BURKEJ
>     20955     FSR300R1
>     20962     FSR300R1        COPY 1
>     20968     FSRP0100
>     20975     FSRP0100         COPY 1
>     20988     FULLPRPL            COPY 1 EACH OPERATOR
>     21001     GICLETR             COPY 1 EACH REQ00001
>     21020     GLREPORT
>     21027     GLREPORT         COPY 1 EACH LOGUE,CHIN
>     21034     GLREPORT         COPY 1 EACH READING,LOGUE
>     21041     GLREPORT         COPY 1 EACH LOGUE,CHIN,READING
>     21047     GLREPT
>     21066     HCMA12R1            COPY 3 EACH LINSKY
>
>     Bruce Conrad, Software Control Analyst
>     Havard Pilgrim Health Care
>     Quincy/Boston, MA usa
>     www.HarvardPilgrim.Org
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