>To anyone willing to help:
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>This is my first time utilizing the forum. I would like to post this question about a small programming question I have and the best way to write the code. What I am attempting to do is append multiple text files with different names (but all have the exact same structure) to a table. The line of code I am currently using from the command window is APPEND FROM C:\DATA\CHARLOTTEPERSONS.TXT DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER :
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>My problem is I have hundreds of files to append, and all that changes is the city name in front of persons.txt. It is very tedious to go city by city. Couldn't I automate this using a variable statement somehow ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thank you.
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>
>Phil Von Haak
>International Internet
>vonhaak@aol.com

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Wellcome Phil :)
You could automate it in many ways. I'll provide one assuming all txt files are kept in a separate directory :

lcDir = getdir()
if empty(lcDir)
 messagebox('No dir selected')
 return
endif
lnFiles = adir(aTextFiles,lcDir+'*.txt')
for ix = 1 to lnFiles
  APPEND FROM ;
    (lcDir+aTextFiles[ix,1]) ;
    DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER :
endfor

Cetin