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Importing Text Files
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Quickdex recognizes and converts Cardfile and Macintosh
Quickdex files automatically, but has no automatic way of
importing 'plain text' files. If you load a text file
Quickdex will assume the entire text goes on a single card.
A plain text file can be converted to Quickdex format very
easily however. To convert text to Quickdex format you must
have a consistent character or series of characters
separating each record (or card) in the original text file.
This separator can be a Carriage Return (CRLF), a symbol
(eg.!) or a string (eg. xxx). To convert the text to
Quickdex format the separator must be changed to a Quickdex
separator character, 0x7F or 127 decimal. In most Windows
applications this separator would look like a 'box'
character.
You can convert your separator character (or string) to the
Quickdex separator character using a word processor or
editor. For example in Windows Write, you would do the
following.
1 - Load your text file in Write (File, Open)
2 - Choose Find, Replace from the menu
3 - in the 'Find What:' edit box, enter YOUR record
separator .eg !. xxx or whatever string you are
using. For Carriage Return use ^p (circumflex
followed by lower-case P).
4 - Tab to the 'Replace With:' edit box
5 - in the 'Replace With:' edit box do the following:
- hold down the 'Alt' key.
- on the numeric keypad type 0127
- release the 'Alt' key
6 - Click on the 'Replace All' button
7 - Choose File, Save As...
8 - Save the file as a TEXT ONLY file.
The file is now in Quickdex format.