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Default Problem with delimited file, double quote strings, and empty last column - 01-17-2006 , 04:30 PM






Hello,

I just ran into this problem and I can't find any other mention of it
through Google. I have a text file that is comma-delimited. It also
uses double quotes as text identifiers. A new column has been added to
the file, but currently has no values. I would like to finish my
development so that when it does finally get some values, they will be
imported as well. The problem is, the last column does not show up in
DTS.

I can reproduce this problem easily enough... create a text file with
the following two lines in it:

1,"test",
2,"test2",

Now, create a new DTS package and add a text file connection. Point it
to the new file and go through the properties for the file. You will
notice that on the second screen where it displays the preview of the
data there are only two columns shown.

This does not happen if there is no text qualifier or if at least one
row has the final column value filled. Is there any way around this
problem?

Thanks!
-Tom.


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