Re: Filemaker and Database events
Re: Filemaker and Database events
About two years ago I asked on this list what would be the best way to import a pipe delimited data file into FM and convert to xml was the answer.
On Jun 11, 2010, at 7:22pm, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> "Have to convert to XML" ? What makes you say that?
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> Bruce Robertson
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> On Jun 11, 2010, at 5:51 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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>> 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)
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>> Each file lists everything on TV on 90 different channels for one day.
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>> Sometimes we work with one day's listings, sometimes one week's listings and sometimes with three week's of listings.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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