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Message Posted: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 @ 17:16:00 GMT

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I am finding that a strange thing happens when attempting to FASTLOAD vartext data using certain values as the field delimiting character. In this case, the ' '(cent sign) was used as a delimiting character. This works fine except that if one of the vartext fields in the file in question also contains a bracket (i.e. '[' or ']' ), this caused the fastload to terminate as if it were treating these characters as delimiters also. This problem does not occur when '|' is used as the delimiting character for the file in question. I have validated that this is the only difference between the two input datafiles. Anyone else run across this type of behavior before in a FASTLOAD session or know of an explanation?

Cornelius Meade III
EDS E.crm - Business Intelligence Services

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