Text to a Memo Field

Dec 22, 2007

What's the easiest way to move a text file content in to a memo field in

Magic V9.4?

Brian Scoffield

Haven't tested specifically, but updating the memo field with

File2Blb(<name of text file>) seems like it ought to work.

-- Steve Blank

Thanks Steve,

Looked like I had to do it in 2 updates.

File2Blb in to a BLOB variable,

then update a memo with the Blob.

But works like a charm.

Brian Scoffield

Brian,

In eDeveloper v9.4, Alpha/Memo and BLOB fields/virtuals are

interchangeable in many instances - not all, but many. You can

update one with the other directly and many of the string functions,

such as InStr() and RepStr(), work on BLOBs as well. Very handy.

Steve