Creating A New Filepro Program Using A CSV File

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Harold Faulkner propounded (on Mon, May 27, 2013 at 05:05:38PM -0500):
| 
| In 1996 I developed a new Filepro program using the data from an Excel 
| file.  That was when my mind was younger and more active. Today I cannot 
| remember how to do it.
| 
| Back then in 1995 I had downloaded a program that pretty much did what I 
| wanted to do, and I followed the example in the downloaded program.  But 
| I cannot find the program I had found in 1995.
| 
| I did try a program found on the internet called "import excel to 
| filepro," but that was no help.
| 
| Can someone send me a link to a program that I can use to develop a 
| filepro program, to get the data from a spreadsheet?

I don't know about every single program put there that can open an
Excel spreadsheet, but: all those I've used, whether on Windows or Unix,
offer an option to SAVE into assorted non-Excel formats, with 'csv'
[Comma Separated Values] always being one of those.  As subchoices,
you can modify the default comma as field separator, or the default
double-quote as quoting character.

Once you've got the ***,csv file, filePro's IMPORT command can deal with
it.  Many of us can offer you some sample processing code.

Keep cool, Harold!

JP