Importing/exporting data with carriage returns (I Think)

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Fri Aug 25 23:28:41 PDT 2017 

You'd use an external program like tr or sed to replace carriage returns
(\r) with pretty much any character you know won't interfere with the data.
\001 is almost certain to never be in data.  Using \007 (bell) would work
just as well.

Perl can easily do this as well, and I know exactly where to get Perl ports
for Windows, if you're on that.

mark->

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:47:47AM -0400, Mike Fedkiw thus spoke:
>    Can you explain what you mean with the \001 and the the \r? I'd assume
>    maybe the \r is a carriage return but I haven't a clue what \001 could
>    be. And how would I go about translating them?
> 
>    Mike
> 
>    On 8/25/2017 4:29 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> 
> Why not just translate the \r to \001 before import, and then whenever
> outputting or otherwise referencing the data on the way out, translate \001
> to \r?
> 
> m->
> 
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:54:31PM -0500, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list t
> hus spoke:
> 
> Top Post
> 
> Mike,
> 
> You have a real problem here.  Typically we need some unique
> character to indicate the end of a row.
> That usually is a carriage return.  If you have carriage returns
> inside any column in the spreadsheet and you use
> filepro's import, that would be understood to be the end of the row.
> 
> I do not know any way you can read this into a file the normal way.
> 
> But, if you are willing to do some manual manipulation, there is a solution.
> 
> Working on the assumption there is a column with some unique
> identifier for that row why not;
> 
> 1) make a copy of the original.
> 2) working on the copy, remove the column that contain the carriage return.
> 3) save as a csv file
> 4) import the remain columns into your file using the file import commands
> 5) make another copy of the spreadsheet
> 6) remove all columns except the column containing the key
> identifier for that row and the one containing the carriage returns.
> 7) add a column to the end and place a ~ in that column for each row
> 8) save as a csv file
> 9) now import this spreadsheet using the file import command and set r=~
> 10) use the key identifier column to place the text into the memo
> field for each record.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Richard D. Williams
> 
> On 8/25/2017 2:10 PM, Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list wrote:
> 
> Okay, so if I remove the carriage returns before importing the
> data using xlate I'm assuming it would all just wind up as a
> continuous line of data. If that's right, is there any way of
> importing the data retaining the spacing between the data so it'll
> be there when exported. Although I've already had issues with the
> data not exporting after the first carriage return last time I
> tried it.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 8/25/2017 1:58 PM, Chris Rendall via Filepro-list wrote:
> 
> 
> You can use the XLATE command to remove the carriage return in a
> CSV import.
> 
> When I use the import command I set the name to "rec": import
> ascii rec=/home/chris/list.csv r=\n f=,
> 
> Then to remove the carriage return I use: rc=xlate(rec(14),chr("13"),"")
> 
> The number 14 inside rec(14) is the number of the field you are
> importing.  If every field has a carriage return in them you
> will need to use xlate for every field, rec(1), rec(2), and so
> on for the number of fields you are importing per record.  On
> Linux when I'm importing a CSV file from Windows I just need to
> run the xlate command on the last field I'm importing.
> 
> -- Chris
> 
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> 
> win-server 2008 r2/filepro 5.0.09dn9
> 
> Can someone tell me how or what I can do to import data into
> filepro that has carriage returns within the data cells?
> 
> I receive these nice XLS files from my vendors with extended
> descriptions for things that I want to get into a memo fields in
> filepro but I'm having all sorts of issues trying to make that
> happen.
> 
> Usually after setting up the XLS file to the way it needs to be
> for the import I'd save it as a DXF file. That's been working
> just fine for quite some time but when a cell contains returns I
> get an error message saying it's not a valid DXF file. I also
> tried saving it as a CSV file and importing that but the cells
> with the returns didn't import at all when I tried that. And I'm
> not even sure I'm saving it as the correct type of CSV(Comma
> delimited CSV or MS-DOS CSV) for importing it.
> 
> Even if I get the import figured out if the data does have and
> returns within the memo it seems to stop exporting that fields
> data after the first one.
> 
> If at all possible, I would really like to maintain the returns
> because it makes it much easier to read the data in the memo and
> it would also make the exported data much nicer too read with
> them included.
> 
> AND...instead of me sitting here trying to figure this out for
> another week or so like I just did with all the MEMO stuff, I'd
> just assume pay someone to set it up for me. If someone is
> interested in doing that, let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
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