Nadya,
I think you should try the option of exporting with low-level file functions. The functions you need are fcreate(), fputs() or fwrite(), and fclose().
I am not sure about speed, but I think it should be relatively fast, you have complete control of all the details, and you can process files of virtually any size.
Hilmar.
>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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