Exporting textfiles without quotes

[Doug Patrick]

I am trying to export records to a comma delimited text fields to be imported into another program. The exported records have quotation marks around the text fields. Is it possible to export these records without the quote marks? Filemaker is putting them there.

[yafreax]

i have not used CS text export, but i know that you can often perform the same tasks with tab-deliminated files. I use these all the time and never see any extra quotation marks. Just something to look into if you can't find another option.

jeremy

[LiveOak]

The standard format for comma delimited files includes quotes to prevent errors with text such as "city,state". To get around the quotes, export in tab delimited format, open the export file in a word processor, replace the ""'s with blanks, replace the tabs with ","'s. -bd

[Thumperman]

I know how to get around this. Export the file from FileMaker in a *.csv format instead of in *.txt or *.tab format. This should take care of it!

Thumperman