>>>Hello : I need some help please. I have to read tables created in FileMaker Pro Format but I could not find any ODBC or another tool that I can use from within a Visual Foxpro Program. Thanks for any help
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>>FileMakerPro allows to export data in DBF format.
>True, but it can be dodgy unless the data is clean.
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>What version of FileBreaker?? some of the older ones don't do DBF, but they will do tab delimited text.
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>The real problem comes when the users have entered text with carriage returns into a text field, or used the multiple values option available in FileMaker.
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>If you can give me more details I can probably give you more help. I'm currently attempting to export from FileMaker 2.1 on the Mac to VFP 3.0 on a PC. It would be a piece of cake if the FileMaker database had been designed, rather than just allowed to proliferate!!! =:0
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>What I'm having to do is export subsets of of the data to TXT format and then rebuild it in VFP so as to get rid of the c**p that they've put in.
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>Jen

Yes, you are right. As I remember, Filemaker multiple values option will prevent adequate export data to DBF.