Top Post Re: Import Dif Help

[Kenneth Brody]

On 6/15/2011 12:20 PM, haroldef wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What I thought would work did not work. First I tried:
> import dif data=c:\appl\mac_email_address\emailadd.csv
> This produced an error message that the file was not a valid dif file.
>
> Then I tried: import word data=c:\appl\mac_email_address_emailadd.csv
> It did not fail, but I could not read anything.
 >
> A few days ago I created a program that would export a csv file, consisting
> of the last name, the first name and the email addresses of over 500 members
> of our reunion group. That was easy as there is advise on the fpteck site
> about creating a program that exports a csv file.

Clue number 1:  filePro says "not a valid dif file".
Clue number 2:  The filename ends in ".csv", not ".dif".
Clue number 3:  You say that you created a CSV file, not a DIF file.

Question:  Are those pieces of information related?

> Can someone point me to where I can read about importing a csv file that
> provides more information then that given in the filepro manual?

If you were doing a lookup, rather than import, how would you refer to the 
last name, first name, and e-mail address fields?

-- 
Kenneth Brody