I have a folder of 500+ text files, tab delimited that I need to import into a filemaker table.
These are all formatted exactly the same like:
name address city state zip
I first tried the import folder (text) feature and was able to get all filenames and paths into a FM Table. I'm sure a loop is the next step but I'm not sure how to accomplish that since I don't see an option in the import script step to select the fieldcontent (filepath) of the current record for import.
Any help would be appreciated.
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true, since he wants to import tabbed files. import from folder imports the whole content in a single field.
in this case, you can parse this content to generate the records afterwards or use your way (probably quicker).
as far as I am concerned, I would have concatenated the files to import as a single one using
> copy a.txt + b.txt + c.txt + ... + z.txt thebigone.txt
then imported this last one, much faster than N imports in fm
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by: lesouefPosted on 2009-09-20 at 09:16:23ID: 25377726
if you'd import file per file and would like to specify the filename, first define a variable=file path, then specify the variable as the file name in the file import script command, or, easier,
put all files (and only files to import) in a single folder and use import from "folder": that will import all files using the same import matching scheme (can be scripted too)