>>Even when I was doing a lot of VFP TEXTMERGE never seemed intuitive to me. Right now I'm floundering
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>>It seems that in order to get a delimited file that works well with a bulk insert to SQL ( i.e. separation with | or something like that and no quotes anywhere ) I need to use TEXTMERGE
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>>Is there a better way than to SCAN and build the line using delimited fields inside the TEXTMERGE
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>>TEXT TO lcSQL NOSHOW TEXTMERGE
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>>SCAN
>>\\<<cid>>|<<name>>|<<address>>|<<balance>>
>>ENDSCAN
>>ENDTEXT
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>>Is there a way to get COPY TO to just create a | delimited text file with no quotes for character fields? ( man I hate the way VFP uses "delimiter" where it should be "separator")
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>>TIA
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>Try
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>COPY TO 'PipeDelimitedFile.txt' DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER '|'
Thanks very much. That gives me exactly what I asked for . Will definitely make a whole lot of things I'm doing right now much easier.
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