Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Jul 16 11:43:30 CDT 2009
That's why you create import/export specs, John. You know that. Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:26 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] TransferText wierdness You will love this one. Place the following text into a text file and run a transfer text on it: R4inc quarter,20083,,,,,, NDC,Drug Name,Rebate Amt Due,#Rx,State Paid,Quantity,Formula,Unit Price DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim , , "RawFormat", "YourPath\YourName.csv" the following is what I get: PK F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 26361 R4inc quarter 20083 26362 NDC Rebate Amt Due #Rx State Paid Quantity Formula Unit Price Notice that the "Drug Name" data item in the second row dropped out. Now, try this one: R4inc quarter,20083,,,,,, NDC,Drug Name,Rebate Amt Due,#Rx,State Paid,Quantity,Formula,Unit Price 597001314,COMBIVENT AER,0,5,513.01,73.5,2: 7.66735 - 3.1734 - 4.6244,0 The following is what I get. F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 R4inc quarter 20083 NDC Drug Name Formula 597001314 COMBIVENT AER 0 5 513.01 73.5 2: 7.66735 - 3.1734 - 4.6244 0 Notice the dropping of TONS of data items in the "field names" row. But hey, why fix the bugs in Access when there are pretty toolbars that need designing eh? 8( -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com