Every time I even think about the different ways I've seen files delimited I just wanna crawl into my cave and sit and make shadow puppets on the wall from the firelight......(shudder). So I don't even want to imagine a "line delimited" file....unless they (whoever they are) mean the '|'?



>Dorris,
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>That's the way I remember it too.
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>But a wonder what a "line delimited text file" is?? I suppose SDF is a good guess, but who can say for sure?
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>Cheers,
>Jim N
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>>>I do the same way but isn't it "DELIMITED" or "WITH dilimiter" instead of "SDF"?
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>>If I'm remembering correctly ('cuz I'm too lazy to look it up)
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>>Append from filename DELIMITED means there is a a CR/LF at the end of each line and a (default) comma between field items.
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>>Append from filename TYPE SDF means that the file is a flat ASCII file laid out with a fixed length with a CR/LF at the end of each line.