# fixed width output **URL:** \ **Category:** KNIME Analytics Platform\ **Created:** [May 8, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/fixed-width-output/6218 "2017-05-08T21:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clac2188](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/clac2188/32/880_2.png) [@clac2188](https://forum.knime.com/u/clac2188)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/fixed-width-output/6218/1 "2017-05-08T21:20:39Z")
How can I write file output that is fixed width txt? ---
**Author:** ![wiswedel](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/wiswedel/32/28273_2.png) [@wiswedel](https://forum.knime.com/u/wiswedel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/fixed-width-output/6218/2 "2017-05-15T14:12:46Z")
  Not sure what exactly you mean by that but in case you want linebreaks every 80 characters or so (and only have text) you can pre-process the data using some a String Manipulation or so and then use the csv writer (whereby you then only have one column) and you skip headers and quotes etc. Hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![clac2188](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/clac2188/32/880_2.png) [@clac2188](https://forum.knime.com/u/clac2188)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/fixed-width-output/6218/3 "2017-05-25T20:54:43Z")
yes. that's what I had to end up doing, sort of. Because there are multiple columns of output required, I needed multiple string manipulations  ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/fixed-width-output/6218/4 "2023-06-23T20:22:59Z")