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From: spowers@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: SKIP/NEWSGROUPRe: dBASE and Commas in delimited files
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.154852.4551@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 20:48:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun28.154343.4550@ducvax.auburn.edu>
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In article <1991Jun28.154343.4550@ducvax.auburn.edu>, spowers@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
> Hi,  This is my first posting on this group.   I was wondering if anyone knew
> how to change the field delimiter (the comma (,)) in dBASE.  I am using the
> command 
> 	.COPY TO file.out FIELDS f1, f2, f3, ... TYPE DELIMITED
  
> This gets me my data in the following form:
>
> "character","also character",numeric,"another character"                   
> 
> The reason that I need this info is I am trying to convert the data
> to WordPerfect 5.1 as a mail merge file.
> 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS A CORRECTION OF THE ORIGINAL POST!!!!!

THANKS FOR ANY HELP.

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