Subject Re: Importing Excel files From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:55:31 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 07/04/2020 17:41, Akshat Kapoor wrote: > Good Evening Geoffrey, > Once you have created equivalent tables in dBase you can use the > following command to import from csv files > > use tableA > append from attendance.csv delimited with "," That should be append from attendance.csv delimited The WITH is only require if single quotes (or any other character) have been used as the delimiter in place of the default double quotes. The comma is not a delimiter, it is a separator. > > I have used this command without any hinderance. This is quite correct but using the APPEND FROM .... DELIMITED has definite limitations.   It does not import into memo fields and it requires days to be in the form ...,yyyymmdd,.... no matter what the date format is set to on the computer. Mervyn.