I have run into an interesting couple of problems. Some of my records have 
double quote marks in them. Mainly because I use them to denote inches. So 
here's the problem.

I want to export some DataPerfect data into a different database. That 
database can import CSV or Tab Delimited files. I can't use CSV formatted 
files because of previous use of double quotation marks in some of the data. 
I thought I could just create a Tab Deliminated file by using ^I as my field 
deliminator, but that didn't work. How would I get tabs entered into a DP 
report? I don't remember how to do that.

The second thing I noticed is that the DP transaction log export facility 
uses double quotes as field deliminators as well. This means that, as long 
as I have double quotes in my data, I can't rely on the transactions log 
export/import facility to clean my database any more. Unless I carefully 
remove those double quotes in the database and never use them again.

Am I missing something here?

Ralph 



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