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AutoIncrement and Importing Data
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
01189260
Message ID:
01189273
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>Hey Guys!
>
>I was wanting to import a large text file (comma delimited) into a table.
>
>The first field in the table is an autoincrementing field.
>
>When I import the data, the data acts like field 1 went into the AUTOincrementing field (yikes!), field 2 to where field 1 is suppose to go, field 3 to where field 2 was suppose to go.....
>
>Sample text file....
>
>
>UPC    Name    Amount    Class
>40001 ,Joe    ,20.0     ,A
>60002 ,Mary   ,31.2     ,B
>20003 ,Gary   ,44.3     ,C
>
>
>When imported into the table.....
>Table foo
>
>Rec_ID          UPC     Name      Amount      Class
>AutoIncrement
>1               Joe     20.0      A
>2               Mary    31.2      B
>3               Gary    44.3      C
>
>
>Will I have to REMOVE the Autoincrementing field, or move it to the END of the table??
>
>Thanks!
>Tommy
lcCommand = [APPEND FROM MyFile FIELDS ]
FOR lnFor = 2 TO FCOUNT([MyTable])
    lcCommand = lcCommand + FIELDS(lnFor,[MyTable])+[, ]
NEXT
lcCommand = LEFT(lcCommand, LEN(lcCommand)-1) +[ TYPE .... DELIMITED .....]
(not tested at all)
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing normal about database guys is their tables.
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