>I am Trying a old Clipper application To VFP and encountered with a Problem.
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>The old application uses some code like
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>mm_ssaback:= .F.
>mm_zone:= "00"
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>save all like MM_* to SANCHAR && The data is stored in Sanchar.MEM file
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>I want to read the data from Sanchar.MEM so that I could work accordingly.
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>Kindly Guide:-
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>1) how to read/retrieve data from the above sanchar.mem file
>2)in case I want to update sanchar.mem so that it can be further used in my clipper only, how to do that
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>Regards
>Harsh


You can use RESTORE FROM SANCHAR to get it back into memory variables, but it will overwrite anything which matches variables already defined. I also wrote a utility that parses it externally as a text file. https://github.com/RickCHodgin/SaveToParser. See the test\ directory for sample use.