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Setting delimiter for export

Jack
in Importing & Exporting

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Hi everyone !

When e3xporting records, is there a way to set the field delimter as a pipe (|)

rather than as a comma etc ? Is there a way to set the record delimiter to a carriage return ?

Thanks for any help.

~ jack

The record delimiter is already a carriage return, so you should be okay there. As for using a pipe for delimiting fields, you have a couple of options. The first is to use FM6's XML export facility.

If you are using FM5.5 or earlier, then you can create a single calculated export field. For example, suppose you want to export fields Text01, Text02, Text03, Date01, and Number01. You would create a calculated text field "ExportData" with the formula:

Text01 & "|" & Text02 & "|" & Text03 & "|" & Date01 & "|" & Number01

Then export this single field as tab delimited.

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Ahah !

So easy when you know how to do it.

Thanks.

~ jack

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