Summary
This article demonstrates how to dynamically export records that contain Memo fields in a table, together with the other field types, into a comma delimited text file.
More Information
The sample code in this article follows this order:
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Prompts for a source table (.dbf file).
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Prompts for a target text file (.txt file).
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Export the contents of the table to the text file.
The code scans and determines every field type and every record in the table and then processes them accordingly to the data type:
CLOSE ALL
CLEAR ALL
lcFieldString = ''
lcMemo = ''
USE GETFILE('dbf', 'Select DBF') && Prompts for table to be used.
lnFieldCount = AFIELDS(laGetFields) && Builds array of fields from the
&& selected table.
*!* Prompt for Output file and use Low-Level functions
*!* to create it.
lcTextFile = FCREATE(GETFILE('txt', 'Select Text'))
*!* Starts scanning the table and converts the fields
*!* values according to their types **
SCAN
WAIT WINDOW STR(RECNO()) + ' Of ' + STR(RECCOUNT()) NOWAIT
FOR lnCount = 1 TO lnFieldCount
lcType = laGetFields(lnCount, 2)
IF lcType # 'G' && Don't try to turn a general field into a string
lcString = EVALUATE(laGetFields(lnCount, 1))
EndIf
DO CASE
CASE lcType = 'M' && Process the Memo Fields
lnMemoLines = MEMLINES(EVALUATE(laGetFields(lnCount,1)))
FOR lnLoop = 1 TO lnMemoLines
IF lnLoop < lnMemoLines
lcMemo = lcMemo + ;
ALLTRIM(MLINE(EVALUATE(laGetFields(lnCount, 1)), ;
lnLoop)) + ' '
ELSE
lcMemo = lcMemo + ;
ALLTRIM(MLINE(EVALUATE(laGetFields(lnCount, 1)), ;
lnLoop))
ENDif
ENDfor
lcString = lcMemo
lcMemo = ''
CASE lcType = 'G' && Process the General Fields
lcString = 'Gen'
CASE lcType = 'D' && Process the Date Fields
lcString = DTOC(lcString)
CASE lcType = 'T' && Process the DateTime Fields
lcString = TTOC(lcString)
CASE lcType = 'N' && Process the Numeric Fields
lcString = STR(lcString, LEN(STR(lcString)), 2)
CASE lcType = 'I' && Process the Integer Fields
lcString = STR(lcString)
CASE lcType = 'L' && Process the Logical Fields
IF lcString = .T.
lcString = 'T'
ELSE
lcString = 'F'
ENDif
ENDcase
IF lnCount < lnFieldCount && Determines if the last field was
&& processed and sets the closing quote.
lcFieldString = lcFieldString + '"' + lcString + '"' + ','
ELSE
lcFieldString = lcFieldString + '"' + lcString + '"'
ENDif
ENDfor
FPUTS(lcTextFile, lcFieldString) && Writes string to the text file.
lcFieldString = ''
ENDscan
FCLOSE(lcTextFile)
CLOSE All
CLEAR All
WAIT WINDOW 'Text File Creation Completed' NOWAIT
References
For additional information exporting memo fields, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
95722 How to export memo fields to an ASCII file
