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   "Ed Nash"  wrote in message   
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   > JoeSpareBedroom wrote:   
   >> OK....so I do what? Import the text file into one big field in a table,   
   >> and search for the sick/missing characters using their ASCII codes?   
   >   
   >   
   > No, the largest ALPHA field size in Paradox is 255 bytes.  But you have a   
   > good idea.  There are many ways to attack your problem.  Here's one. If   
   > there are no CR/LF pairs throughout the file and the length of each   
   > "record" is a fixed number of bytes, then you could write ObjectPAL code   
   > using TextStream to to read x number of bytes and then write x number of   
   > bytes plus the CR/LF characters to an output file, looping until you are   
   > finished.  Perhaps there is some software out there that will parse a long   
   > record into many short ones.   
      
      
   PdoxWin was evicted from here long ago, but I see an idea for doing this   
   with PdoxDOS. Record length of these files is never more than 100-150 chars.   
   Import into a table, and just use a series of SUBSTR steps to pick out the   
   various fields out of the long line of text.   
      
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