Re: .csv file imports to VFP

2023-04-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:04 PM Joe Yoder wrote: > I thought I could simply preprocess the file and change each occurrence of > a single line feed with a comma but when I look at functions available I > suspect it will be painfully slow. > > Any ideas appreciated, > You ought to try it before r

Re: .csv file imports to VFP

2023-04-17 Thread Richard Quilhot
You can use notepad ++ find and replace to preprocess the file. Rick Q quilh...@gmail.com On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:04 PM Joe Yoder wrote: > Alan and all, > I have researched the problem records and find that they have line feed > characters without a leading carriage return. This results f

Re: .csv file imports to VFP

2023-04-17 Thread Joe Yoder
Alan and all, I have researched the problem records and find that they have line feed characters without a leading carriage return. This results from the operator hitting a return in a notes field of the accounting package I am using. Apparently Excel import insists on a combination of carriage

Re: .csv file imports to VFP

2023-04-17 Thread Srikanth Bhandari
This challenge may arise if the delimiter is also a value in the field content such as a comma. Ideally it would be good to use a delimiter which isn't ever used in the content such as the pipe symbol. Trust this should solve your challenge. -- Cheers!!! *Srikanth Bhandari* Email: srikanth.bhan