Many thanks to those who responded on the data loading question. Because most of us need to do it at some time I thought it worth the time to report the results so it's feedback time with a question at the end.
Thanks for the suggestion Alastair, I altered the plus signs to ampersands and it made no difference, R:BASE still didn't want to play ball. I used the new LOAD tablename FROM filename.txt AS CSV with 6.5++ and it worked, only if the text strings were enclosed in single quotes then the single quotes were imported with the data. (Found that out by accident, didn't I.) So don't do that. I then removed the single quotes from around the text fields and "just for fun" inserted an apostrophe in the surname of the last record I was importing, did a test with the AS CSV and crashed to the desktop with the message: "RBG65.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows." This was not due to an error in my import data, this particular import routine must use memory in a way that is not released as it has been prone to crashes after successful imports.!@#$ How do some of you get to 40,000 rows before a crash and burn? I can't get past 8! (Must be the water in the wrong direction thing again.) On restarting R:BASE and checking the table all the data had been imported. As the record with the apostrophe was the last in the record set I duplicated the first rows without the apostrophe, altered the PK values and retried the import - successfully. This is the record set that worked: 10002,,Sharron,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 20002,,Jyo,Aadarsh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 30002,,Bryan,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 40002,,Nigel,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 50002,,Stephen,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 60002,,Nicole,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 70002,,Rose,Abboud,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 80002,,Varant,A'boulian,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 10003,,Sharron,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 20003,,Jyo,Aadarsh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 30003,,Bryan,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 40003,,Nigel,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 50003,,Stephen,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 60003,,Nicole,Abbott,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 70003,,Rose,Abboud,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Q. I still don't know how to get it reliable so it does not crash. I would try a disconnect after importing the data for each table only the import of data into successive tables is governed by a complex form and disconnecting within an eep called from a form is not an option. Any ideas? OK, just answered my own question, I'll try a loop, closing the form after an import and looping to the top of the code and just reopening the same form. 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/
