Tip of the day - Failed IMPORT

[Nancy Palmquist]

Jerry Rains wrote:

> I learned something today.
> 
> If you have a one line file that you are trying to IMPORT and there is 
> no LineFeed on the end the IMPORT will fail.
> 
> By the same token.  I assume that if you have a multi-line file and 
> there is no LineFeed on the last line you will prematurely finish the 
> IMPORT without importing the last line.
> 
> Something to watch out for.
> 
> Jerry Rains
> Director, Information Technology
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Jerry,

This makes sense if you told it to look for a end-of-record marker and 
it was not there.  If you use other techniques to read the file or 
change the options for IMPORT it might not be an issue.

Nancy

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