Use FOPEN and the other low level functions to slice-and-dice it *or* dump it into a memo field.
>Hi,
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>I have to find a way to import a text file into a table. The problem is that each line in the text file is 1464 chars. With other text files I have worked with - which were less than the max. field length of 254 chars - I simply imported the file into a table and started slicing and dicing the data.
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>Any ideas on how I should go about importing a file with more than 254 chars per line?
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>Thanks, Al
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