>I'm in a situation where I have users giving me tab-delimited text files to be imported into a table, from which I'll do reports. However, the format that they send has more than 255 fields.
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>I've been trying to figure out a way to open the text file and split off some of the information into one file, then put the rest in another. I can open them with the FOPEN(), but I haven't had any luck counting tabs to get to where I want to split it.
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>Has anyone had to do this type of thing before?
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>Thanks,
>Rebecca

See if this Re: Excel to DBF - quickly Thread #506263 Message #506594 will give you some pointers.

And Re: Import text file - more than 256 fields Thread #890295 Message #890321