Subject Re: Tab Delimited From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:52:55 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:33:34 +0200, Rob Rickard <rob@nospam.com.au> wrote: > Thanks Mervyn > I did make the date fields character because I thought that would give   > less issues, just been given another file and quick glance at it and I   > think it may have something like a memo field in(Title is called   > notepad). Maybe time for me look at it tomorrow, my day has been 14   > hours so far(hence the coffee) dBASE's copy delimited (which doesn't work with TAB separated files to   start with) doesn't work with memo fields.  This is not true of of the   little program I gave you. If you create a memofield in your .dbf table the program will take   whatever is in the text file for that field and place it in the memofield   without any special treatment. Mervyn.