Blank Line at the end of query output

• lizkorah

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  May 19, 2008 at 11:29 am

  #190627

  I have a batch file which does the following:

  1. Uses the isql utility to executes a stored procedure which extracts some data and stores it in a table.

  2. Uses the isql utility again to read data from this table using a SELECT statement and outputs the result to a text file.

  My problem is that a blank line is included at the end of this file. I am using SQL Server 2000.

  Is there any way to remove this extra blank line from this file?

  I was getting two blank lines initially. I used the following code and now am left with one blank line

  @Echo OFF

  for /F "tokens=* delims=" %%G in (C:\TempInput.txt) do @echo %%G >> C:\TempOutput.txt

• John Rowan

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  May 19, 2008 at 11:49 am

  #817350

  What problem does the blank line cause you?

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• tbeadle

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  May 20, 2008 at 11:57 am

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  Hello,

  You should be using the bcp utility to output the data from the table built by the isql programming.

  Regards,

  Terry

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• Jeff Moden

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  May 20, 2008 at 6:45 pm

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  You really shouldn't use ISQL.exe... use OSQL.exe instead. Also, as suggested, BCP is likely the way to go here.

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