Re: Export from Filemaker Pro.

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

>>On Aug 6, 11:55am, pumin wrote:
>>> Subject: Export from Filemaker Pro.
>>> ******    message to minivend-users from "pumin" <pumin@madmacs.com>
>>    ******
>>>
>>> Hello Filemaker Pro user,
>>>
>>> How can i export a text file from Filemaker Pro, with field names on the
>>> very top line?  I couldn't find any script that does.  If you know how to
>>> do, please tell me so i can import to Minivend without manually adding
>>> fieldnames.
>>>

I combine export as merge file with a little perl. Merge format has field
names in the first line, but uses ; as delimiter and surrounds fields with
". A little perl transforms that to tab delimited.

Frank

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