Re: Filemaker and Database events
Re: Filemaker and Database events
- Subject: Re: Filemaker and Database events
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:22:50 -0700
"Have to convert to XML" ? What makes you say that?
Bruce Robertson
On Jun 11, 2010, at 5:51 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> It starts with pipe delimited raw text file with thousands of records each with 15 to 18 fields. (It's a fixed fileformat that is used in a number of applications, that won't change)
>
> Each file lists everything on TV on 90 different channels for one day.
>
> Sometimes we work with one day's listings, sometimes one week's listings and sometimes with three week's of listings.
>
> The file format is fixed and not internally consistent. Movies and sports programs each have a different number of fields than the rest of the programs.
>
> Importing into FM from appleScript is a real pain because you have to convert to XML (which takes a long time) then save the xml file to a standing file that a filemaker script can recognize for import.
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