How to create TXT file from variable?

[#1]

Hello everybody,

my client would like to create TXT file from QlikView with number 0 or 1 (depends on if condition). I was searching for some solution, but I found nothing.

Is it possible to create only file with one of these numbers?

I tried this - but I think it is not good:

LET vNotification_file#1=if( if( InWeek(Today(),date(if( $(vActualDate)<= $(vActualDate2), vActualDate2, vActualDate)),0),

date(date(if( $(vActualDate)<= $(vActualDate2), vActualDate2, vActualDate)))=today(),

  date(date(if( $(vActualDate)<= $(vActualDate2), vActualDate2, vActualDate))+2)=today()),

'0 ','1 ');

- then I manually created empty TXT file

Tab1:

LOAD @1 as not1,

$(vNotification_file#1)

from

$(vPathDATA)not.txt

(txt, codepage is 1250, no labels, delimiter is '\t', msq);

Tab2:

LOAD

$(vNotification_file#1)

Resident Tab1;

Store Tab2 into $(vPathDATA)Notification_file#1.txt(txt);

This gives me number 1 in TXT file.

Many thanks.

Maros

[Gysbert_Wassenaar · Accepted solution]

MyTable:

LOAD $(vNotification_file#1) as FieldNameHere

Autogenerate 1;

STORE MyTable into MyFile.txt;

But perhaps this is easier: execute cmd.exe /c echo $(vNotification_file#1) > myfile.txt;

[#3]

Thanks.

I tried this before - bud it gives me this output:

FieldNameHere

1

What i need is only this output:

1

Thank you

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Then use the second option I posted. Saving a table in a text file with the STORE command always (yes, really, really always, no exceptions, I ain't kidding) with a header row that contains the field names.

[#5]

I was replying to 1st option - "MyTable and STORE". I dont want the header in txt file. I need only value.

The 2nd oprtion - execute is not good for thie solution.

[marcus_sommer]

Why not the second option?

[#7]

I tried it with execution, it works. Thanks

[carlcimino]

How would you do this to a specific location using a variable?  I tried the below and it ran but did not produce the file.

LET vDataPath = '\\file path\';

execute cmd.exe /c echo > $(vDataPath)BAR_FILE_IND_TEST.txt (txt);

[evan_kurowski]

It's always been an item on the wishlist, to be able to have STORE write (txt) verbatim to disk.

Another tricky issue was when contents of the data contained characters like double-quotes, output rows were automatically wrapped with exterior and escaped quotes.

It would be neat to have a pure verbatim STORE option, making it possible to read or form lines of code in script, and  output a new valid programmatic file. (Imagine loading, tagging, & re-sequencing XML files or something.  course hope this wouldn't get abused)

I upvoted this in IDEA forum

[marcus_sommer]

There are several issues. Your path contains spaces and needs therefore quotes to be valid. Further you don't use Qlik to store data else you used it to execute the windows command-line to do it (by "abusing" their logging-feature respectively call it a workaround). This means you need to specify also a content and the file musn't have a fileformat entry esle just an extension. This means your code should more look like:

LET vDataPath = '\\file path\';

execute cmd.exe /c echo $(YourFileContent) > "$(vDataPath)BAR_FILE_IND_TEST.txt";

- Marcus