>>Hi everyone,
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>>VFP6.0 SP5
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>>I have a requirement to create a text file from our database, where delimiters would be |^ (two symbols) and char data would not have quotes. Files have ~250 fields and may be huge.
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>>I'm thinking about two possible approaches:
>>1) Scan the file and process it manually (here is a subquestion: do it through textmerge or create chunk string and put this string into file)
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>>2) Use copy to command and process the file afterward (Need some fll to make this replacement).
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>>What do you think would be better? Does somebody have a similar experience and some benchmarking?
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>>Thanks a lot in advance.
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>Nadya,
>Would you elaborate this more. I think you don't mean :
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>COPY TO myfile.txt TYPE DELIMITED with '|' WITH CHARACTER "^"
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>Cetin

No, it inserts additional chars instead. We need Field1|^Field2|^Field3|^Field4