Hello Nigam:

The fastest way would be to let map info do it

    Register Table "Tab_Delimited.Txt"
             TYPE ASCII
             Delimiter 9
             Charset "WindowsLatin1"
             Into "Table.Tab"

then process the "Table" in what ever way you need.

Henry A. Mumm



>All the MI cool-cats!!
>  I have to read in a tab delimited file into MapBasic variables.
>  I tried the Input # command, but it reads till end-of-file and takes the
entire record into a single variable.
>  How do I read a record and distinguish fields after each tab delimiter? 
>  Help!!! This is very urgent.
>
>Nigam
>
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