>I am attempting to append to a DBF from an ASCII file in which the fields are delimited by the vertical bar (|).
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>The command
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>Append from Tabular.dat delim with |
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>does not work; I get the first ten characters of the line in the first 10-character field, and that is it.
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>I have sucessfully appended about a million times before, but those were always comma delimited or SDF files.


Tina,

If you select | as your delimiter, then the data file must look like this:

|xxxxx||yyy||zzzzzzz|
|12345||22222||9999999999|

Each field must be bracked by the delimiter, one in front and one in back.

Paul