Subject Re: separator for CSV file to be imported into dBase From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:58:11 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2020/09/24 10:00, Akshat Kapoor wrote: > Good Afternoon Gaetano, Jean, > I am yet to see Mervyn's Code but going by the time frame he was working > on it till late hours so must be good. I always look in on the computer just before going to bed.  The code didn't take long to write so I didn't loose too much beauty sleep. :-) > > The code which Gaetano modified needs further correction. > The first starting " and the ending " are missing. > Gaetano's code in the inner do while loop replaces every ; with "," which means that there is neither a double quote at the beginning nor at the end of the string. The  line  chr_str='"'+chr_str+'"' immediately before the line fout.writeln(chr_str) takes care of that. Mervyn.