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Appending from pipe delimited file
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15/09/2017 11:07:58
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01654355
Message ID:
01654357
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39
>>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

Thank you, Nick. Stuck then.
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