Thanks Stan, At 08:57 19/03/02 -0500, you wrote: >Suggestions inserted below. >Stan Loo >-- SET QUOTES=" (Excel's default is double quotes. Open a saved CSV file >with Notepad and you will see this.)
Not in my installation. If I save a file as CSV it has no quotes as the default, could find nothing in the _really_ helpful MS Excel help. >-- (Looks like that one or more text values contain an apostrophe or a >single quote. Do a search. SET QUOTES=" just before LOAD .... should >correct this and perhaps >the error problems too. Then include SET QUOTES=' after LOAD ...... or >where needed.) I omitted to mention that I am testing this with a very vanilla 6 line file that was hand crafted to contain no anomalies (like embedded quotes). >2. As an aside, do you know how to save an Excel >spreadsheet into a CSV with double quotes round the text? > >-- See above. > > >3. SET VAR vErrorTest = .SQLCODE following the --** does >not retrieve an other than 0 error, probably due to the >prior command not being an SQL command. What do you >use here? Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
