Editing Fixed-Format Tables with Touching Columns

You can use the Data Exchanger component to edit fixed-format tables where the columns touch each other with no intervening spaces or punctuation.

  1. Double-click the Data Exchanger component icon .
    The Data Exchanger Component Editor appears.
  2. From the Data Exchanger Component Editor, select a Table format section.
  3. Right-click in the white area of the Data Source area, and select Edit Section details.

    The Edit Section Format dialog for a Table format appears.

  4. Click the Fixed Columns tab.
  5. Enter the column boundaries in the text box.

    The numbers are the character position on which each column ends.

    Column 1Characters 1 through 5
    Column 2Characters 6 through 10
    Column 3Characters 11 through 15
    Column 4Characters 16 through 20

    For example, entering the following text creates four columns, each five characters wide:

    5, 10, 15, 20

  6. Click OK to save your changes and to close the dialog box.