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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Text File Connection</title>
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<created date="2004-07-28T15:03:00">UFI: Database Wizard text file</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id2517166"><bookmark_value>tables in databases;importing text formats (Base)</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>text databases (Base)</bookmark_value>
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<h1 id="par_idN1054F">Set up a connection to text files</h1>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10553" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Specifies the settings for importing a database in text format.</ahelp><comment>UFI: most text copied without editing from shared\explorer\database\11040000</comment></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10568" xml-lang="en-US">In a text format database, data is stored in an unformatted ASCII file, where each record comprises a row. The data fields are divided by separators. Text in the data fields is divided by quotation marks.</paragraph>
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<h2 id="par_idN1056B">Path to text files</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1056F" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Enter the path to the text file or files. If you just want one text file, you can use any extension of the file name. If you enter a folder name, the text files in that folder must have the extension *.csv to be recognized as files of the text database.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<h2 id="par_idN10572">Browse</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10576" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Click to open a file selection dialog.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/dbaccess/ui/textpage/textfile" id="bm_id3230994" localize="false"/>
<h2 id="par_idN10616">Plain text files (*.txt)</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Click to access txt files.</ahelp><comment>UFI: sorry, this is not in the spec.</comment></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/dbaccess/ui/textpage/csvfile" id="bm_id1720023" localize="false"/>
<h2 id="par_idN10643">'Comma separated value' files (*.csv)</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10647" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Click to access csv files.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/dbaccess/ui/textpage/custom" id="bm_id2862636" localize="false"/>
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<h2 id="par_idN10666">Custom</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1066A" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Click to access custom files. Enter the extension in the text box.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<h2 id="par_idN10581">Field separator</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10585" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Enter or select the character that separates data fields in the text file.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/dbaccess/ui/textpage/textseparator" id="bm_id3149795" localize="false"/>
<h2 id="par_idN1059C">Text separator</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105A0" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Enter or select the character that identifies a text field in the text file.</ahelp> You cannot use the same character as the field separator.</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/dbaccess/ui/textpage/decimalseparator" id="bm_id3151385" localize="false"/>
<h2 id="par_idN105B8">Decimal separator</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105BC" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Enter or select the character that is used as a decimal separator in the text file, for example, a period (0.5) or a comma (0,5).</ahelp></paragraph>
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<h2 id="par_idN105D3">Thousands separator</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105D7" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Enter or select the character that is used as a thousands separator in the text file, for example a comma (1,000), or a period (1.000).</ahelp></paragraph>
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