RE: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet

I make sure the columns lengths of the Excel spreadsheet are the same
length as the System i5 file.

Then, I save the spreadsheet as a fixed length file - a .prn format.

Finally, just ftp it directly into the qsys file - no need for any IFS
here

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I believe in Excel that you save it as text (tab-delimited)

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From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

How do you do tab-delimited? What is the hex to insert? As in:



D Tab c '????'

C eval record = City + Tab + State + Tab + zip



Scott Klement wrote:

James Lampert wrote:

But would that work for data that has commas and other punctuation
(and in one column, what appear to be CRLFs) in it?

Consider using tab-delimited files instead of CSV. There's no
drawbacks that I know of to using tab-delimited, and it solves all
of the CSV problems.

Not sure why so many people recommend CSV, it has always had
problems with commas and quotes -- tab delimited never has had these

problems.

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