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I can't seem to open a tab-delimited file.
returns an error:

Error DBCMD/1015 Argument error: __DBOPENSDF

Try this way:

IF !__dbOpenSDF("testlong.txt", aStruct)

Thanks Serge,

I was able to get it working with

xResult := !__dbOpenSDF( "testlong_comma.txt", aStruct, "DELIM", .T., "TESTLONG" )

Unfortunately, I quickly discovered the limitations of delimited RDDs, like not having record counts. We'll probably build a substitute.


T & R,

DC

serge_girard wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2026 6:34 am Try this way:

IF !__dbOpenSDF("testlong.txt", aStruct)

Would something like this be helpful ?

No, but thanks Serge. I've worked with that strategy in previous years, and used data dictionaries to deal with longer field names. But some of our newer delimited files are huge and surpass DBF limits.

We won't be using the RDDs for this.


T & R,

DC

serge_girard wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2026 5:27 pm Would something like this be helpful ?

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aStruct := {}
AADD(aStruct, { 'ID1', "C", 10, 0 })
AADD(aStruct, { 'ID2', "C", 10, 0 })
DBCREATE("testlong.DBF", aStruct)
USE  testlong
APPEND FROM "testlong.txt" SDF