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- From: srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook)
- Subject: Population Paradox 4.0 memo fields
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.012725.28507@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
- Sender: srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook)
- Organization: Department of Survey and Land Information, New Zealand
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:27:25 GMT
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- Do you know of a good way of populating memo fields in Paradox 4.0?
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- I have a large ASCII file containing fields over 256 characters long, which
- I would like to put into MEMO fields. Unfortunately the ASCII import in
- Paradox does not support the MEMO field type. Even if I break the field
- up into alphanumeric fields of less than 256 characters I cannot combine
- them simply to form a single memo field.
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- The only way I can see at present would be to read the entire file into
- a memory variable, then parse it using PAL. This would be very slow and
- also difficult to generalize (or so it seems to me).
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- Is there a better way?
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- Many thanks in advance for your suggestions
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- Chris Crook
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