Geoff

Natively it won't support anything that exceeds field size limitations nor will it handle memo fields.

One fast way if Excel is available is to APPEND FROM to get all the non-memo fields, then open the file in Excel via automation and read the memo cells to pull the data into the cursor.

Reading the file line my line involves some fairly complex parsing to deal with commas that may appear inside a quoted field.

>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?