| Subject | Re: Tab Delimited |
| From | Rob Rickard <rob@nospam.com.au> |
| Date | Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:11:41 -0400 |
| Newsgroups | dbase.getting-started |
Hi Mervyn That's great news, I check the forum before I start work so when I create the database for that file I will include a memo field. I'm fairly sure that it will need one just by looking at it last night. Would you suggest character field for the dates because at this stage I don't need to do anything with them and I believe I should be able to convert them if I did. One again I really appreciate the help. Regards Rob Mervyn Bick Wrote: > 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. | |