Syntax error... in the wrong place

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/1/2013 3:30 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Wow.  Sorry; ignore most of that posting.   Let's try again:
>
>
>>> So I wrote the copy and convert statements by hand, and now I'm
>>> getting the syntax error:
>>>
>>> """
>>> import ascii old=(fn) r=^J f=|
>>> ^
>>> Merge name incompatibility.
>>> Word processor or spreadsheet merge has been given two different
>>> names.
>>> """
>>>
>>> on line 25, the *second* of those calls I make. Can you not call
>>> import twice on the same file in the same table?
>>
>> Apparently, it is a *syntax error* to have two IMPORT ASCII tag statements
>> in the same table with the same tag. I'm not sure I approve of that.

I'm not sure we asked for your approval.  :-)

>> But I guess I'll just have the sender turn off the column headers.
>
> There.  That's the part I care about.  Silly Zimbra.

No need to turn off column headers.  Just execute the EXPORT multiple times.

-- 
Kenneth Brody