Any way to report on the WIDTH of a text document?

[bdpowell]

Good Morning!

I have a need to report on the width of a text file. The width for this extract must be the same every time and we would like to have a validation.

I know I can easily get the length by adding a record count and counting those, but I need to be able to pull the total width of my text files.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

Thank you!

Ben

[SamDesk · Accepted solution]

Hello @bdpowell,

If by Width you are referring to how many characters are contained in a field then this would be called the field length and we can calculate this using a formula tool. I've created a dummy workflow to show this.

Sam :)

[bdpowell]

That got me on the right track!

I ended up using another action tool to update a copy of the text file and made that 1 field. Then I just did the length formula and it worked.

Thank you,

Ben

[SamDesk]

Glad it got you sorted!

Sam :)