Did you try to explicitly name all the fields, including the memo field?
>Hi all
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>I have an import file which is in CSV format. It has an alpha field which can be up to 2000 bytes long.
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>I thought to use APPEND to bring the data into memo a field (along with the other fields.)If I try to import it using either DELIMITED or CSV my field gets skipped if it is defined a MEMO.
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>Is there a way around this short of treating the entire file as one string and processing each line?
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>Regards
>Geoff Scott
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