Alan, John Baughman has a wonderful collection of tip & tricks and one of the methods is called ‘Array_ArraysToClipBoard’. I don’t have the code with me but perhaps he has one that does the reverse and that may help you with your spreadsheet import?
> On Dec 23, 2018, at 5:47 PM, Alan Tilson via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > Is there a way to copy from a spreadsheet like data source and to paste > directly into 4d while parsing it into table(s) and fields? I'm using v17 > if that matters. > > I thought about saving the data into a text file and then importing the > text file, but there seem to be unnecessary steps in there! > > Thanks, did some searches but didn't find anything, > Alan Later, Guy -- Guy Algot, Solutions Specialist Edmonton, Alberta (780) 974-8538 hardware, installation, training, support, programming, internet specializing in 4th Dimension =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming." -- Simon Slavin ********************************************************************** 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] **********************************************************************
