>>It's interesting that VFP has no support for programmatically IMPORT from CSV, when it is capable of import from more complex file formats.
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>It has such comamnd. Create table with fields in same order as in csv file and use
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>append from csvfile delimited
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>or similar to import.

I think you're missing the point of the thread. Mel does not know about the structure of the CSV file, or it can be a lot of things, so he cannot CREATE and APPEND.