Some ideas: I would question the desirability of an excel file for these data, getting the data back out of excel will be more than a little fun. A text file with the LFs replaced with some unique code would be better for most purposes. Alternatively, you could pick some high ascii codes as your field and row separators as long as the other end can understand the data.
It may be easier to export as a 4D file and bring into a new database using the create table option so that you can do more sophisticated manipulation (presuming you can get into user mode). On 03/08/2018, 18:21, "4D_Tech on behalf of Perkins, Bradley D via 4D_Tech" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: I've been asked to provide an export from a legacy 4D system delivered as an .xlsx file. The challenge I'm facing is that this table contains a number of text fields and the customer requires the imported column cells to retain the returns or line feeds in the original text fields. If I do a straight tab-delimited export with carriage returns as the end of line marker, the imported result does not preserve the original row because any returns encountered in the text fields are interpreted as end of row. My other challenge is that I need to do this with out-of-box end user capabilities from a client (v15.4 remote) against a compiled server. I can't install plugins, create new methods, etc. It has been many years since I've had to do this type of thing in 4D. Can I replace the carriage returns in the text fields with a special marker during export? I could replace the Excel cells containing the any carriage return markers with actual returns after import. Thanks, Brad Perkins ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
