personally dataport

eli.vidal

sorry, but my english is not good
i want to personally a dataport to import customers of a .txt

In the .txt I have this format:
"Steve, ...
Jan, ...
Mary, ...
..."


I want to import data like: "CL
"CL1Steve, ...
CL2Jan, ...
CL3Mary, ...
..."

if this question is too simple, sorry... but I'm a beginer...

thanks
eli

kriki

We're here to help beginners (and sometimes also experts).

You have to create a few globals :
-intEntryNo of type integer
-txtHelp of type text100;

In the "OnPreDataItem()"-trigger of the dataitem, you must put

intEntryNo = 0;

In the "OnAfterImportRecord()"-trigger of the dataitem, you must put

intEntryNo += 1;
txtHelp := 'CL' + FORMAT(intEntryNo) + Name); // I supposed that you read the name into the "Name"-field of the customer
Name := COPYSTR(txtHelp,1,MAXSTRLEN(Name)); // this in case the string becomes longer than the maximum string you can put in "Name". This code avoids a run-time error.

I hope I understood what you wanted.

PS : in the beginning, also the specialists were beginners 8)

kine

Of course, there are other ways, but I think that the kriki's way is the simplest one. If you want to know other ways, ask for more... :-)

And as Kriki wrote: I was begginer too (and still I am sometime ;-))... may be that in some time you will answer the questions there...

eli.vidal

that's great!!!

I really happy because it's a very good reply...

thanks
eli