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Importing Commas and Double Quotes


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I'm trying to import a text file that contains commas and double quotes. When I do the import Filemaker removes all of the double quotes and the chops off all of the data after a comma. I know what its doing it, because quotes are text qualifiers and commas are separators. I tried replacing the commas and quotes with escape characters " and ,. That didn't work either.

What should I do?

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Wow, I didn't know that would work with .tab, I knew that you can do this with cvs the other way. However, that wasn't quite what I meant, so be careful with the results. I meant that you should go back to the source application (i.e. Excel, FileMaker, etc., and save the file as a text tab-separated file.

If you don't have access to the original application, then let us know.

HTH

Lee

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