Re: recfmt tabular output returns one record only

[Rowan Wookey]

Can you provide the recset command you used? And the version of recutils?

On 02/11/2023 23:30, Wu Ming wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> This is a surprise. Records were inserted with recins and recset so I did not 
> add additional newlines myself.
>
> If .rec is:
>
> %rec: Tot
>
> CSV: 36
> HTML: 2
> %rec: Checks
>
> Dir: 19112
> Name: First
> html: 128K
> Dir: 2375
> Name: Second
> html: 124K
>
> it still works.
>
>
> If .rec is instead:
>
> %rec: Tot
> CSV: 36
> HTML: 2
> %rec: Checks
> Dir: 19112
> Name: First
> html: 128K
> Dir: 2375
> Name: Second
> html: 124K
>
> it won’t. recsel will return empty.
>
>
> I have chosen .rec for not having to deal with separators anymore. Do I need to 
> avoid recset and recinst for recfmt to work instead?
>
> > On 3 Nov 2023, at 13:26, Rowan Wookey <admin@rwky.net> wrote:
> >
> > The new lines in the check.rec are counted as part of the filed. If you remove 
> > these lines it will work for example if you change your check.rec to:
> >
> > %rec: Tot
> >
> > CSV: 36
> > HTML: 2
> >
> > %rec: Checks
> >
> > Dir: 19112
> > Name: First
> > html: 128K
> >
> > Dir: 2375
> > Name: Second
> > html: 124K
> >
> > It will output:
> >
> > recsel -t Checks check.rec |  recfmt -f template.txt
> > 19112 First 128K
> > 2375 Second 124K
> >
> >
> > On 02/11/2023 21:06, Wu Ming wrote:
> > > recsel -C -t Checks check.rec | recfmt -f template.txt

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