>I'm doing an APPEND from a text file to a table, and I have defined a Default Value for one of the table fields - but the field remains blank after the import.
>
>The default value includes the concatenation of other fields.
>
>I presume VFP doesn't have the other field values until the record is imported - and by that time it's too late to calculate the default value???
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no. if true, then vfp it would produce an error because default is undef.

It don't do this, and it is a bug for me.

>Anyway... is there any way for me to force all those empty fields to be populated with the default value I have defined for the field?
>

no.

if it can help:

...
APPEND FROM textfile.txt 
BLANK ALL FIELDS ... DEFAULT

>TIA
>Michael