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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ken Cole [mailto:ken.m.cole@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ryan Powers<br><b>Cc:</b> filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: variables for import fiellds<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ryan,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Imports and exports don't accept variables.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ken<br><br>On Thursday, 20 September 2012, Ryan Powers wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm trying to do an import of a csv file which may vary in the number of<br>fields it contains and their order.<br><br>My approach is to use a metadata file which can also be imported. In this<br>file, each line contains a field number that corresponds to the fields in<br>the csv. Here is what I am doing:<br><br>1. open the csv<br>2. grab a free record<br>3. open the metadata file<br>4a. loop on the metadata import, and keep a count of the number of loops<br>4b. read a metadata "record" which is a field number<br>4c. put the value from csv field n into lookup ct.<br>Something like this:<br><br>ct(4,.0)="1"<br>fd = metadata(1)<br>lkup(fd) = myimport(ct); ct=ct+"1";<br><br>The problem is that myimport(ct) fails the syntax check. Is there a function<br>that I could use?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><br><br>---<br>Ryan Powers<br>Bulldog Software, Inc.<br><a href="http://www.bulldogsoftware.com" target="_blank">http://www.bulldogsoftware.com</a><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br><a href="javascript:;">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br><a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>