>Hi,
>
>I am appending from a .txt file which has a pipe (|) delimited entries. I created a table (in VFP database) that has fields corresponding to the columns of the .txt file. One of the columns has a lot of text so I created the field type M.
>But when I append from the .txt file, the "M"- column of the .txt file goes to the next field of the VFP table. And the "M" field is empty. This is the command I use to append the records:
>

>APPEND FROM customerfile.txt DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER "|"
>

>
>Any suggestion what I may need to change?

Hi Dmitry

Append from doesn't support memo fields so it ignores it.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1405005

Nick Mason