>Hi,
>
>Since APPEND FROM does not work with MEMO field, I need to extract data from several .TXT files using an alternative approach. I thought of parsing the file with VFP code, loading the file into a string with FILETOSTR(). But the string is too long (the .txt file is about 6 MB).
>I would appreciate any suggestions?

Append from would ignore memo fields.

There are multiple solutions to the problem.

-Read using Microsoft ACE engine using OLE and cursor adapter.
-Append to another database like postgreSQL that wouldn't have such problems and get from there.
-Process the file low level line by line (probably the solution that many VFPers would choose).
-Request to the source to supply a better format instead :)
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