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Extracting fields from record in a text file
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Yes, please specify, please show the code you are using, please note the errors you are receiving.
Are the fields actually fixed-length or are they comma-delimited? Have you opened the file for INPUT, RANDOM or BINARY? Are you using INPUT or GET in your read statement? Ah, so many questions.
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Are the fields actually fixed-length or are they comma-delimited? Have you opened the file for INPUT, RANDOM or BINARY? Are you using INPUT or GET in your read statement? Ah, so many questions.
Our answer depends entirely on your question. Please post again with all of the pertinent details.
Alt255@Vorpalcom.Intranets.com
"If you can get people to ask the wrong questions, they'll never find the right answers."[tt]
Thomas Pynchon[/tt]
Perhaps the reverse is also true....
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