Import a text file

[mbsmith]

I need to import a text file (tab delimeted) into a tabular datawindow. I can get it imported but I cannot perform any sorting, grouping, calculated fields, or retrieval arguments on it...help please sirs and madams.

 

[Tentacle]

Give more information on what exactly it is you want to do. Sort what, group how and calculate which fields for instance. Plus you can’t use retrieval arguments on an imported file, your best bet would be to filter the information once it's imported. Also which version of PB are you using?!?

Regards

Tentacle

 

[mbsmith]

Thanks for the response. I was wanting to sort the imported data. I was wanting to filter the imported data based on an argument I retrieve from an .ini file. I was wanting to sum a couple of fields coming in from the imported text. Bottom line is I think I discovered a bug in PB 8.03. I doesn't appear that the sort, filter, or caulculated field functions in a data window work when importing data. I was forced to handle these manually in the calling program. This works fine but Sybase tech support is investigating the issue as a bug.

Again, thank you very much for the effort to help,

Mark Smith