Import this

[Denis Bélisle]

Hi Ruslan,

What? Access, FileMaker like behavior?
And I thought Valentina was a serious database engine...
Tss, tss, tss...

Denis

P.-S. Seriously, this bit about values in quote for comma delimited 
files definitely should be in an obvious spot in the doc.



On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 11:09 AM, 
valentina-request at lists.macserve.net wrote:

> on 9/12/03 17:51, Eric Frericks at efrericks at imaginatics.com wrote:
>
>> on 9/11/03 9:10 PM, Eric Frericks at efrericks at imaginatics.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Ruslan,
>
>>> Im experimenting again with another small project. Im trying to 
>>> import some
>>> text files with the following in Director, but nothing is being 
>>> imported. I
>>> tried without the last 3 parameters when instantiating the Vcursor 
>>> Xtra
>>> without success. Now I get a "wrong number of parameters" error. I 
>>> have
>>> version 1.9.7 I downloaded the latest version from the web site, but 
>>> it would
>>> not open with WinZip. I have also attached the text files Im trying 
>>> to
>>> import. Can you take a look? Thanks again Eric
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Problem is simple.
>
> You try import as you think coma-separated file that looks as
>
> 004-005,5,305,205,245,135,105
> 006-007,-,-,225,-,-,125
> 8,-,-,[1],-,-,[1]
> 9,-,-,225,-,-,125
>
>
>
> Valentina for coma-separated file (like Access and FM also) expect that
> values are in quotes. You do not have this. And this cause problems.