Import ASCII file

[smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net]

The all important KEY to success in importing,  is standing in a single 
record CONTROL (single record) file, then reading in the data from the ASCII 
file and then POSTING the data to the real filePro file.

Worked great,

Wayne Smith
Port Orange, Florida

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kenneth Brody
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 5:10 PM
To: smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: Import ASCII file

On 4/14/2011 5:05 PM, smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> WOW,  I figured it out by trying and experimenting ..... I should have 
> tried
> harder before asking,

And the solution that you came up with was...???

[...]
> -----Original Message-----
[...]
> I have a filePro file with the proper fields in it with zero records and I
> would like to populate each record with an ascii text file in a (one line 
> at
> a time) structured,  defined format (appx. 1000 records).   I actually 
> have
> the data in an excel file that I could use also.
>
> Any advice on how to accomplish this?
>
> FilePro 5.0,  Windows 7
[...]

-- 
Kenneth Brody