John, the lengths are 6,8,6 chars respectively. no releation exists between the three.


>Are a.txt, b.txt, and c.txt of the same record length? Is there a 1-to-1-to-1 correlation between the 3?
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>If so, you could always use FOPEN() to open all three and then loop until FEOF(). Use FGETS to get a line from each of the three into vars, APPEND BLANK (or INSERT INTO) for the table and then get the vars into the table.
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>>I ran out of ideas for accomplishing the following:
>>I have an empty dbf with fields a,b,c and I have 3 txt files a.txt, b.txt,c.txt to be appended using sdf. I want a,b,c to be populated from top down with no blanks.Instead, by nature, new records keep getting appended leaving fields c & d blank to start.
>>hmmmmm.