import

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Steven Waters <steven at triumphinstruments.com>
wrote:

> I tried this one and got syntax error. 
> 
> >Alternately, if your file has a record separator
> character such as a New
> Line you could >use something like the following:
> >@menu:::
> >loop:::
> >::import ascii imp = /f/appl/fpmerge/tgicaps.txt
> r=\n:
> >:not imp:goto endit:
> >::xx=imp(1):
> >::'  manually parse out fields from xx and write
> them to another file:
> >::goto loop:
> 
> So I had to add
> import ascii imp = /f/appl/fpmerge/tgicaps.txt r=\n
> f=\n
> The result was field 1 importing. The other fields
> dropped off.
> 
> I'm off to try the Alien file suggestion.
> Thanks for your help
> Steve
> 
> 

Sorry, I thought that I had done that in the past, but
I guess I was confusing it with export ascii.  At any
rate you should be able to specify "r=\n f=~" (or
something else for the field separator that you know
is not in the data)

Good Luck.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.




		
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