You will need to change end of row delimiter to asomething other than a carriage return. Perhaps a tilde. You will need to set up excel as well to use the new character. Just make sure that if you have such a character in any text field you escape it.
Regards Chuck On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:09 PM Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech < [email protected]> wrote: > I would like to be able to embed a return and/or line feed into column > in a tab delimited file (opening with Excel). > > ex: > data <tab> data <tab> text data with return more data <tab> data > <return> > > Excel will give me: > Col1 Col2 Col3 > Data Data text data with > more data data > > > I can not see a way to do this. > Is it possible? > if so, how? > > Thanks > Chip > --------------- > Gas is for washing parts > Alcohol is for drinkin' > Nitromethane is for racing > ********************************************************************** > 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] > ********************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Miller Voice: (617) 739-0306 Fax: (617) 232-1064 Informed Solutions, Inc. Brookline, MA 02446 USA Registered 4D Developer Providers of 4D, Sybase & SQL Server connectivity http://www.informed-solutions.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attached documents contain information which may be confidential, subject to privilege or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. These materials are intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, you are hereby notified that any distribution, disclosure, printing, copying, storage, modification or the taking of any action in reliance upon this transmission is strictly prohibited. Delivery of this message to any person other than the intended recipient shall not compromise or waive such confidentiality, privilege or exemption from disclosure as to this communication. ********************************************************************** 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] **********************************************************************
