No - just the string. The tool should take care of formatting text for its own use.
Rick On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:50 AM, jham36 <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you need to put your text string in double quotes? > > I have not tried it myself. > > James > > On Jul 9, 10:19 am, Roger Justice <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have done a lot of importing and have hard coded character fields and > did not encounter the problem you are having. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Cook <[email protected]> > > To: arslist <[email protected]> > > Sent: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 7:49 am > > Subject: New Data Import tool > > > > ** I am using this for the first time, and I don't like it. In addition > to it taking longer to map fields, it refuses to both accept a text string > into the Character field AND log why it won't. It just gives a popup asking > me to confirm that it is skipping each record with a message "Record > <number>: For input string: <contents of field 1>". Anyone seen this > behavior and gotten past it? > > > > Rick > > _attend WWRUG10www.wwrug.comARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > ____ > > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives atwww.arslist.org > > attend wwrug10www.wwrug.comARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"

