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Can a field have breaks in it ? Or two fields

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Hi, I need a field to have more than one item in it.

I have a basic record as one long line but at times some lines need to be broken up as separate boxes still in a records line. Much like an HTML Table and table rows and such.

Can file maker do this dynamicly with tab delimented files?

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What exactly do you mean, "separate boxes?" Like <html> tags </html>? What type of "breaks" are you looking for within this field? Text fields can use returns, tabs, and several other types of characters that could be considered breaks.

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You can import your text into one holding field and then use script to either split the text to multilines within one field in each record or split the text easily into separate fields or even create related records. What you can not do is import one text field directly into separate fields.

You must import - then use script through the imported found set to manipulate the data.

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tripdragon

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those two ideas sound good.

But I am not to adap with script yet.

Would it be something like,

If

new record has tabs

make new break at each tab

else do nothing

repeat till end of line

end if

Something like that ??

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