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Data pipes instead of tabs/commas

Chris Hutcheson
in Importing & Exporting

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I was wondering if anyone had a simple solution (within Filemaker) rather than using Excel to bring in a text file that is delimited by the data pipe (|) character. I'm using a CGI to process form data (MformsPro) on my website, with frequent imports of new data. Mforms produces text files this way, and currently I'm finding and replacing the pipe in BBEdit, or using Excel to do this. I'd like to eliminate the extra step if possible.

Thanks!

Import as tab delimited. Everything will come into a single field including the pipe delimiters. Call this field "Rawtext".

Have a calculation field called "ReformattedText" with the following formula:

ReformattedText = Substitute(RawText,"|",gTab)

where gTab is a global field that contains a Tab character.

Now export the database as tab delimited with ReformattedText as the only field in the export order.

Finally, re-import this file as tab delimited into the fields that you want.

There are more efficient (but more complicated) ways to do this, but this can be done with fairly simple script steps.

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