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Repeating Fields to Standard Field

jtringale
in Importing & Exporting

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Hi All,

I have a file that contains a repeating field with data in 12 repetitions. We now have a need to have this data placed in unique (Standard) fields. Is there any way to move (export - import) this data from the repeating fields to newly defined standard fields?

THanks for your help!

Joe T.

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Hi,

I should add that I tried exporting the data to MS Excel in a DIF file format. I saved it as a text file and then set out to use an " as a delineator. Problem was that some fields had multiple """" in them so that data was not consistent across the spreadsheet. For example one record contained more """ than others so that the data in each column was garbled.

Thank you.

JOe

The best way that I found to do this was a pain, but you need to setup 12 fields to store the data and then you will do 12 replaces.

Start in the first field and replace via calculation like this: GetRepetition ( RepeatingField )

The others then get replaced as follows:

GetRepetition ( RepeatingField, 2 )

GetRepetition ( RepeatingField, 3 )

GetRepetition ( RepeatingField, 4 )

and so on.

Once finished you will have the data from the repeats in 12 seperate fields and you can then kill the repeating fields.

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