>Hi All,
>I am importing a file and noticed that it sometimes mises a column. I have a cursor with 12 text columns and am appending in a csv file with various values. If I use
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APPEND FROM &mFileName TYPE csv

>Then I miss the top row, which I need. So I've bene using this, but it gave a weird issue today. If there is any column, field, that does not have data at all then it is skipped, so field 9 becomes field 8. If even 1 field 9 has data then it is fine, but for me field 9 will be blank a lot and I rely on a calculation based on any values in field 8.
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APPEND FROM &mFileName delimited with ,

>Any idea how to solve this?

With CSVs, one thing I've done in the past:

- Before importing, read in the file to a string variable using FILETOSTR()
- Copy the top row (column headers/names) to a separate variable etc. This is everything up to the first carriage return/line feed combination i.e. CHR( 13 ) + CHR( 10 ) . You can then parse that variable to get the column names

Then import normally using the CSV option.

Actually, thinking about it you can get the headers with FILETOSTR() either before or after the CSV import, the timing doesn't matter.