Re: Creating tab delimited files

Donald Tees wrote:
jmoore207@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I need a little help with imports and exports programs. I have created
many comma delimited programs, I am having an issue with tab delimited
files and numeric fields. I have written an export program that
creates a tab delimited file from an indexed file. I have also written
an import that would use the tab delimited file and update or create
an index field. I am having an issue with numeric fields. Does anyone
have any good examples of these. I am using Acucobol in a Solaris
environment. Thank you


I'd advise putting quotes around each field before stringing with tabs.
If you do not, then tabs inside fields will screw up, as well as certain dates.

Also be sure to escape quotes within the fields, because *those* will screw things up.

Louis
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