>>Hi Michielle,
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>>>I have a large text file that I need to turn into a dbf. The "fields" are a fixed length, but there are extra spaces so it's not strictly delimited. Is there a way to import this into a dbf where the fields are already set using the lengths of the fields to determine what text goes in which field?
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>>What does the text look like? Could this be a SDF file?
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>>Christof
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>I'm currently trying it as a SDF file, but in case that doesn't work, I'm looking to see if there's a better way that I missed.
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>There's 792,502 records in this file. Is there a way to append only a few of the records for testing purposes?

The easiest thing to do would be to open the file with an editor and simply copy a small number of records into another file without reformatting, and then play with the copy that contains the few records you copied.