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  • August 5, 2016 at 10:51 am

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    vinaypandey28 8266 (8/5/2016)

    Hi Jeff,

    I am facing difficulty when column row is not having any text qualifier but data rows have.

    what would be the format file structure in this case.

    --Data file structure

    Column1Name,Column2Name,Column3Name

    "Row2Column1Data","Row2Column2Data","Row2Column3Data"

    What difficulty are you having? Are you using the "FirstRow" setting to skip the header? Also, can you post the command and the format file you're having problems with?

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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