>>>And once I DID get a file delimited with "|". Nasty to handle.
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>>I see it all the time, actually. DHL sends out their rate and route files using the bar delimiter, and it's a PITA the first time you encounter it. The solution we settled on was to use low-level file I/O to read the file a line at a time, and then parse the line into a vector using AT() to isolate token values. Once written, the solution works regardless of what the delimiting character is.
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>Great minds... that's almost exactly what I ended up doing.

The 'import' functions are really speedy in fox,
so i parse the file to replace the unwanted delimiters with
more usable ones.
And, after that, i run the import as text delimited.

Very fast...

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