FIX

Synopsis

HELP:   Write a fixed length data field
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: FIX(LENGTH=num,CUTDAT,ADDPAD/REMPAD,PADBYT=num,ALIGN=num)

Description

Writes the data of this column as a byte sequence with a fixed length. If no length is specified, then the length of the element is used. If the length parameter is provided, then the element length must match the set length. Otherwise, you have to active the appropriate switches to cut or pad the data to the desired length.

An alignment can be used to pad each cell to the next multiple of the specified byte count, so that the next column starts at a pre-defined offset. The bytes in between are padded with binary zeros unless the padding byte is set to a different value.

Arguments