PROTIP: Importing data into filepro

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Mar 11 09:13:26 PDT 2013


If you have any control at all over the format of incoming variable-length 
data that you need to import into filePro, you should specify

| 

as your field separator, and no added commas at all.

While it's an ASCII character, it's not a character that anyone who isn't a
programmer ever types anywhere; I have been using it for this for literally
three decades, and it has never falsed *once* on me.  Ever.

Just sayin'...

Cheers,
-- jra
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