>Hi everyone,
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>I have a huge text file (~100 000 records with ~50-60 fields), Tab delimited. I need to remove all double quotations from this file.
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>This is the algorithm, we used. It doesn't work on big files - we have an error: "String is too big to fit".
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>What else could you suggest besides low-level functions?
If the text file is delimited, couldn't you just append it into a cursor as delimited. Not just one huge memo field, but 50-60 fields and 100,000 records. Then SCAN ENDSCAN STRTRANing all the fields. This way the STRTRAN should be on a smaller size.
Bret Hobbs
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