On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:34 PM, John Weller <j...@johnweller.co.uk> wrote:

> I have had problems like this.  The command APPEND FROM <filename> TYPE CSV
> will always drop the first line as it assumes it is the header.  If your
> data does not have a header line then use APPEND FROM <filename> TYPE
> DELIMITED.

It's mostly a terminology issue. In the minds of the FoxPro
Developers, and Microsoft in general, a CSV file is a special case of
a DELIMITED file with a first line of field names. (Check out an Excel
export, for example.) Most of the rest of the world doesn't make that
distinction.

The Hacker's Guide covers this pretty well, iirc, and I think Tamar
wrote up a follow-up article on it. DELIMITED WITH and SEPARATED BY
give you the power to read a lot of different formats, at low-level
speed, and without bugs in code you have to write and debug.

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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