so I'd get a record with substring, and then fields by a substring of the substring. ok. What if there are commas or semicolons in there?

On May 14, 2004, at 11:39 AM, Storey, Paul wrote:

When you populate your array, load each field using <@SUBSTRING>.

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yes. Then what?


On May 14, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Storey, Paul wrote:

Can you have the file exported so the fields are fixed width?

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System A exports a file that has many records, 10K to 15K. Records have fields that are text and fields that are numeric.

That file will be read by witango and turned into records to add to a
database.

I can have the exported file in any text format. (CSV, different
delimiters, quoted values, whatever)

I did a couple of quick attempts to read the file, turn it into an
array, and ran into issues. No matter what I set the delimiters to, a
comma in a field triggers errors when creating the array.

So, rather than stumble into the right approach, I thought I'd ask the
list for what the best practices are for creating uploaders like this.

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