Tip of the day - Failed IMPORT

[Jeff Harrison]

--- "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com>
wrote:

> Ken posted:
> > 
> > Quoting Lerebours, Jose (Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:22:17
> -0500):
> > [...]
> > > I have a dummy variable (no edit) holding a
> comma or a semicolon,
> > > using command   import ascii ref = (za) f=s 
> r=\n o=" c="
> > > I do not get the desired results.
> > [...]
> > 
> > This tells filePro that the letter 's' is the
> field separator.
> > 
> 
> I know but I was kind of hoping that if it found   s
>   to be a 
> variable, it will then use it as "reference" not as
> a "literal" :)
> 
> I also tried enclosing  s  in parenthesis but of
> course, that did
> not work.
> 
> Thanks;
> 
>

Right.  The import command is limited in that you
can't have a variable as a seperator.  You may want to
consider using the raw read commands and parsing the
information yourself.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

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