G'day Fred, Thanks for the tip.
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). At 09:52 19/03/02 -0800, you wrote: >You have single quotes in your data that you are importing. > >To get around this I have always used a ^ symbol as my quote symbol >rather than single or double quotes, when doing this type of task. It is >unlikely that you users will use this symbol on a daily basis. That way >your users can put anything they want in the data and you don't have to >deal with it. Can you do that from Excel? 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/
