ASCII Import

[Shuman, Mike]

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
Jean-Pierre A. Radley
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:50 AM
To: FilePro Mailing List
Subject: Re: ASCII Import

Shuman, Mike propounded (on Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:24:22AM -0500):
| On Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
| Shuman, Mike wrote:
| 
| > When importing ASCII text files, filePro imports the last record of 
| > the text file first and the first last.
| > Question?  Is there a way to get filePro to import the first record 
| > of
| 
| > the text file first and the last last?
| 
| Ummm.... What you are seeing is how filePro imports or uses records 
| that have been previously deleted.
| 
| If you have a file that has no records and import data into it, the 
| records will build as you are expecting them to.
| 
| To show what I mean, delete the records in the reverse order that you 
| are doing now, and they will fill in the order you expect.
| 
| Bingo!!  You are correct and reverse order delete works.
| Have been trying to reverse order Import but that doesn't work.
| Never thought about reverse order Delete.
| Once again, filePro can do it if you give it enough thought or talk to

| enough people

>But why does it matter in the slightest which way the items exist in
the key file?

>--
>JP

To me, it doesn't.
To filePro, it doesn't.
I gather from your comment, to you it doesn't.
However, if it matters to the end user, read client, for whatever their
reason, then it is important.
If they are willing to pay the bill to make so and it can be done, I say
so be it.

--
MLS

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