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Hi,

The following script correctly "puts" a text file into a variable. The accurate number of characters is placed into the card variable "filesize".

put URL ("file:" & it) into tFileData
put the number of characters in tFileData into tFileChars
put tFileChars into field "filesize"
put tFileData into field "DataText"

However, the "field" "DataText" on a card only receives a portion of the text data, not the total number of characters. Is there a reason for the text to be limited in size? Is there a way to set the size of the text field?

Thanks -- and be prepared for more questions from this newbie !

Hi Ken,

What kind of file are you trying to import? If it is a plain text file, this should just work. If not, could you please tell a little more about it?

Best,

Mark

Mark,

The file being imported is a plain text file -- however, it contains some html code characters. Here is a portion of the file:

<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:33 PM 100<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:33 PM 153<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:33 PM 14<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:34 PM 1<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:34 PM 2<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:34 PM 305<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:35 PM 100<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:35 PM 182<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:35 PM 100<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:35 PM 5<br>04/13/2007 ZN 07Jun 107085 12:35:35 PM

If you would like to see the entire file, I would gladly email it to you.

Thanks so much for your assistance.

Hi Ken,

I have no idea why Rev would cut off the data when displaying it in a field. Feel free to send your stack and the text file to m . schonewille (at) economy-x-talk . com . I'll have a look.

Best,

Mark

Mark,

Thanks so much -- stack & data file to import have been emailed to you.

Please let me know if you can duplicate this problem.

Best regards,

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the stack and the data. Your file is a very messy HTML file, with lots of spaces in the beginning, some javascript and more garbage in the first 5456 (!) lines of the file. I just can't believe that people design web sites like this.

The actual data start with a header that looks as follows:

Date Com Mth Price Time Type Volume

---------- ----- -------- ------ --------- ------------ -----------

Unfortunately, the data following this header doesn't contain any linefeeds. As a result, the data consist of one line with a length equal to 65533 or more. Revolution cannot display lines that long and therefore the data is cut off at that line when displayed in a field.

You can solve this by including the line
in your script, right after the line that reads the data from the file. This will break up the data into smaller lines that can be displayed in a field.

Best regards,

Mark

Mark,

That worked perfectly to bring the whole file into the text field.

Thanks a bunch.

Best regards,