>I am looking for a way to mimic the way "Append From" works with a comma delimited file, but instead of reading a text file, I am being passed a single string in this format.
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>In other words, if I am passed a string that looks like this:
>"1234,'ABCDE',678,'FGH'"
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>What's the easiest way to break up that string into the appropriate fields of a table.
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>The only way I can think of to accomplish this, without writing the parsing code myself, is to write the string to a text file then use the APPEND FROM command to read it back in. There must be an easy way that won't produce needless drive writes.
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>Thanks

Could you make a cursor with the field format that is appropriate and then do a SQL insert into the cursor like this:

insert into mycursour fields (num1, chr1, num2, chr2) values (&mystring)

Not sure that would work, I haven't tested it yet, but its something to try...