Joe.. we've discussed this very issue several times recently.. bottom line,
it will take a ton of work to im****t that data.. much more work than
ex****ting it, once it's already there.. are you sure you really want to go
down this trail?
--
Steven Green - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA
Diamond Software Group
http://www.diamondsg.com/main.htm
Paradox Sup****t & Sales
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"JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:ikUzj.5632$7d1.5290@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I've got a txt file with fields delimited by commas. One field contains
> product descriptions, and many have words enclosed in quotation marks.
> When using Tools, Im****t, Ascii, Delimited, Pdox has problems with
records
> containing those quotation mark-affected words. So, the im****t never
> proceeds. I could do a search-replace on the txt file and remove all the
> quotation marks, but that presents another problem: Some descriptions
also
> contain stuff like
>
> paper plates 10"
>
> ...where that 10 inch designation is im****tant, so I don't want to
remove
> ALL quotation marks.
>
> How do I tell Pdox to ignore quotation marks completely during the
im****t,
> and focus only on the commas? I seem to recall a way of adjusting im****t
> parameters, but it's been too long since I did this. I see nothing in
the
> menus.
>
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