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>>btw, manual weighs in at 37.95 lbs.... ;~)
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>
>Bad news....VFP no longer supports the LOAD command. Here's the situation:
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>We have an area here which is working on a VFP/Sybase system that has to create a (delimited by stars [EDI format]) text file. Rather than do the manipulation within Fox, a new hire here decided to do it in C. Unfortunately, this person THOUGHT they knew more C than they do, but rather than re-write the code in Fox (approximately 2 hours worth of work), they are trying to make this bleedin' piece of C work.
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>Major stumbling block is they need to pass parameters back and forth to the C program.
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>Sadly, *MY* original Foxpro manuals were misappropriated by an old roommate (why, I don't know - she wasn't a programmer), and from the sounds of it, I hallucinated that portion of it. Perhaps in the Library builder??

maybe she needed a weight for pressing flowers!!??

two hours to change * to , ..... you must be kidding?

open text file
create output text file
read input text file into string_variable

do while not eof(text file)
   output_string = ""
   for i = 1 to len(string_variable)
      if substr( string_variable, i, 1 )="*"
         output_string = output_string + ","
      else
         output_string = output_string + substr( string_variable, i, 1)
      endif
   next i
   write output_string to output file
   read next string_variable
enddo
close all
end

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