>>>Hi Michielle,
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>
>>>What does the text look like? Could this be a SDF file?
>>>
>>>Christof
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.

Yeah, that would have been a good idea if I had seen it before I got it to work. :)

Thanks,

-Michelle