Does the "With Character" clause work for you?

APPEND FROM GETFILE() TYPE DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER "!"

hth
-Stefan

>I am having a dickens of a time trying to append a text file into a table, which I've done several times before, but maybe I am leaving something out.
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>USE C:\AMMSSQL\POHIST IN 0
>SELECT POHIST
>APPEND FROM C:\AMMSSWL\BK_ELECTRIC.TXT DELIMITED WITH "!"
>BROWSE
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>What happens is that the first 10 characters go into the first field (but the data is only 7 characters for the first field, and the delimiter of "!" is also there as one of the 10 characters; it is as if the FoxPro APPEND FROM command completely ignored the delimiter. The field is 10 characters long, but the PO (Purchase Order #) data is only 7 characters long.
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>So, I get the following data in the first field:
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>0800607!04 <-- You can see that the delimiter is now part of the data, but why?
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>What's going on here?