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Post-Processing Formats

REPORT (continued)

Post-Processing Formats

The two main post-processing formats available for online REPORT output from Dialog are DELIM and SYLK. These formats facilitate the post-processing of data with personal computer applications software. When you use a post-processing format, Dialog automatically modifies the data to conform to the specified format.

Comma-Delimited	DELIM
Symbolic Logic	SYLK

To request either of the formats, append the format code shown above to your REPORT command. The maximum line width for reports in post-processing formats is 240 characters.

Two additional post-processing formats are available:

Data Interchange Format	DIF
System Data	FIXED

DELIM

The Comma-Delimited (DELIM) format provides comma delimiters separating each data column in the report. There are no fill blanks to the left or right of the data in each field. Text fields have quotation marks (" ") at the beginning and end. Empty text fields are indicated by a double set of quotation marks. Empty data fields have no special markers. Fields with no data are separated from preceding and succeeding fields with a comma delimiter.

• To use the DELIM format:

?report s1/co,ni,ta/all delim

Align paper;  press ENTER
?<enter>

DIALOG(R)File 101 :Disclosure Database(R)
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"","Net","Total"
"Company","Income","Assets"
"Name","(000s)","(000s)"
"INTELSAT CORP",99532,5734877
"INTELLON CORP",-3029,7646
"INTELLIGENTIAS INC",-18,20
"INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP",4469,15010
"INTELLI CHECK INC",-2880,5656
"INTEL CORP",5044000,48368000
"INTELLIGENT LIVING CORP","",766
"INTELLISYNC CORP",-13414,160793
"INTELLIGENT MOTOR CARS GROUP I",-338,581
"INTELIDATA TECHNOLOGIES CORP",-33235,10605
"INTELGENX TECHNOLOGIES CORP","",""
"INTELLIGENT SECURITY NETWORKS",-1494,55
"INTELLIGROUP INC",-6385,44488
"INTELLECTUAL TECHNOLOGY INC",615,3512
"INTELLIGENT SPORTS INC",-449,60
"INTELLIREADY INC OK",-1959,131
"INTELEFILM CORP",-12636,4857
"INTELLIGENT CONTROLS INC",-282,9392
"INTELLICORP INC",-7246,11494

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